The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low.

The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.

He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.

The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet.

Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.

Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself.

Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.

Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.

Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.

Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.

Man’s holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man’s greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.

Life is like a bud, it always dreams to bloom like a flower.

Only the honorable people resist the injustices! The rest - the honorless - are afraid of even their own shadows!

Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.

If Christ be anything he must be everything. O rest not till love and faith in Jesus be the master passions of your soul!

Painful life is brutal and painless life is superficial.

Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.

As a 29-year-old, the only thing that I can possibly think is that if I'm still performing at 50, it's because I'll have had disastrous marriages and I have to pay for them.

Were there no men of vision, all who are blind would be dead.

Not everything in life can go perfectly according to plan. I mean I didn't keep every girlfriend I ever had.