The devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints.-

Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea.

They lose nothing who gain Christ.

Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.

O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without Thee, it would be hell; and if I could be in hell, and have Thee still, it would be heaven to me, for Thou are all the heaven I want.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

In our fluctuations of feelings, it is well to remember that Jesus admits no change in His affections; your heart is not the compass Jesus saileth by.

I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.

I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet.

Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.

No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus.

When did you suddenly become Mister Maturity?

I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.

Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.

Really? Was that how you quit me?

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.

Getting the job done has been the basis for the success my company has achieved.

Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.