The Lord looks on his servants with pity and not with blame. In God's sight we do not fall; in our sight, we do not stand. Both of these are true, but the deeper insight belongs to God.

All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.

He [Jesus] did not say, 'You will never have a rough passage, you will never be over-strained, you will never feel uncomfortable,' but he did say, 'You will never be overcome.

The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.

Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.

Where do we begin? Begin with the heart.

For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it.

As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother.

The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.

God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.

We need to fall, and we need to be aware of it; for if we did not fall, we should not know how weak and wretched we are of ourselves, nor should we know our Maker's marvellous love so fully.

Believe and be so strong in virtues like character, instead of looking for miracles.

She filed those moments away like precious documents, wore them smooth with memory, collected them like bits of prayers.

All he could do was wait like this, patiently, until it grew light out and the birds awoke and began their day. All he could do was trust in the birds, in all the birds, with their wings and beaks.

Most scientists are without exception adorably quirky, and one of the ways of making it more accessible was to try to get readers interested in the person.

Bob Dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success, and no longer putting out good work.

I have been baptized twice, once in water, once in flame. I will carry the fire of the holy spirit inside until I stand before my Lord for judgement.

The two chief things are faith and love. Faith receives the good; love gives the good. Faith offers us God as our own; love gives us to our neighbor as his own.

Women want the fairytale. Not all women, of course, but most women grow up dreaming about the kind of man who would risk everything for them, even knowing they might get hurt.

Good art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions.

The Christian church does not need more popular preaching, but more unpopular preaching.