Paul was so much taken with Christ, that nothing sweeter than Jesus could drop from his lips and pen.

We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.

When we believe that we should be satisfied rather than God glorified in our worship, then we put God below ourselves as though He had been made for us rather than that we had been made for Him.

Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's beauty!

A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.

God knows all that is done in the most secret caverns of the heart. No place is deprived of his presence.

Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.

Our ignorance of God is too great, because our estimations of God are too little.

Without the heart it is no worship; it is a stage play; an acting a part without being that person really which is acted by us: a hypocrite, in the notion of the word, is a stageplayer.

Pride is self contending with God for preeminence.

Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.

Who you are married to determines what your future will look like

The Love that moves the sun and the other stars.

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

We found out a long time ago that we weren’t meant to fall in love with each other. But a part of me still fell in hope with him.

Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world - like grace - and shines on everybody.

Ideal legislators do not vote their interests.

In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel.

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

We travel as seekers after answers we cannot find at home