Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.

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.

If there was time on the clock there was a chance.

I had one nanny who made me sit in front of a bowl of porridge for three or four days running when I refused to eat it. I remember being very unhappy about that.

Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.

I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras.

I was always an overachiever.

It is only in the heart that anything really happens.

You may include things you believe to be crucial in a design, but those elements are often only crucial to you.

What's the point of living if you don't belong anywhere?

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization.

Learning is about failure and recovery from failure.