Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.

If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.

Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.

I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.

Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.

To be filled with God, is a great thing; to be filled with the fulness of God, is still greater; to be filled with all the fulness of God, is greatest of all.

As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.

The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.

You cannot be afraid of the unknown. In every moment and with every step you take, the unknown becomes the known.

Focus is a weapon as much as much as your bow.

Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.

The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.

I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us.

How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives.

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

Coincidence is what you have left over when you apply a bad theory.

Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.

What I can't create I don't understand