They lose nothing who gain Christ.

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.

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.

The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

You will die but the words you speak or spoke, will live forever.

Thoughts are strange creatures. They lead you from one thing to another. Sometimes you don’t know how you got from one to the next.

The sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger.

I didn't fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.

Methinks love maketh men like Angels.

People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.

You might be a redneck if the hood and one door are a different color from the rest of your car.

You're all welcome in California.

There's certainly a portion of my brain that is always tuned to making wry observations about the world, but that portion of my brain was alive and well before Twitter.