The highest earthly enjoyments are but a shadow of the joy I find in reading God's Word.

The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.

Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord.

The works of God are great mysteries and may truly always be hidden from us, however it is not wrong to lead your own personal enquiry through your prayers to the Lord.

God and posterity will show me more favour

Lord, into thy hands I commend my spirit!

I do wash my hands in innocency, before God and the face of you, good Christian people this day.

God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me.

Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart.

Forgiving yourself means that you give up on your hope that the past will be different.

Sorrow looks back worry looks around faith looks up.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Next to the wonder of seeing my Savior will be, I think, the wonder that I made so little use of the power of prayer.

But, something has to be worked through formally as well as emotionally. Now, when those two things come together I've got something, I think, that I can be proud of.

In the garden I will die. In the rosebush they will kill me.

We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.

Loneliness cannot be shared.

People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn't. It's a convention.

This silence, this moment, every moment, If it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need.