There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.

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.

From little seeds great flowers grow.

It was painful to have him so near, yet beyond my reach.

Fighting is not a man thing, it's a human thing.

If you had met my father you would never, not for an instant, have thought he was an assassin.

I love bowling almost as much as I love not bowling.

There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.

You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father's face and tell him you have received his Christmas gift.

Each person should display her own particular gifts for study. For no one is safe who strives beyond her abilities; and thus it is safer to trust in reason than in men’s opinions.

In week one of the X Factor, just to be a little bit quirky, I decided to say that I like girls who eat carrots. Ever since I've had lots and lots and lots of carrots.

Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.