Since therefore all things are ordered in subserviency to the good of man, they are so ordered by Him that made both man and them.

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.

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

They all went indoors with their new friends, and found rooms so small as none but those who invite from the heart could think capable of accommodating so many.

Listen carefully, I’m going to say three words.”“I love you?

For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.

What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all.

You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well.

We can bring our spiritual practice into the streets, into our communities, when we see each realm as a temple, as a place to discover that which is sacred.

I think my numbers speak for themselves.

Though few would admit it, most of the time, when people are upset they don't actually want to feel differently, they want agreement and ways to make a situation, condition, or person change.

They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are.

The day before yesterday has always been a day of glamor, of gilt and glory. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does a meerschaum pipe.