We lose much consolation by the habit of reading His promises for the whole church, instead of taking them directly home to ourselves.

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it.

Even your little sorrows you may roll upon God, for He counteth the hairs of your head.

Jesus is in the tempest. His love wraps the night about itself as a mantle, but to the eye of faith the sable robe is scarce a disguise.

Winter in the soul is by no means a comfortable season: but there is this comfort, namely, that the Lord makes it.

Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory.

If it pleases Him to bid our patience exercise itself, shall He not do as He wills with His own!

Worldlings pray to the Lord in times of need, when it serves their turn. They cry to Him in trouble, but forsake Him in prosperity.

Meditation puts the telescope to the eye, and enables us to see Jesus after a better sort than we could have seen Him if we had lived in the days of His flesh.

The suppliant, whose fears prevent his words, will be well understood by the Most High.

Religion has a way of making people into idiots is what my father says.

Trials and tribulations only come into your life to test you, so you could make some testimonies out of them.

Of course, the liar often imagines that he does no harm as long as his lies go undetected.

The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.

Most of my comedy is accidental, I would say. If I don't know what the joke is, I'm going to play it better than if I do.

I would rather go to Baghdad than go to a professional basketball game.

Unsaturated fat is an outrage.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

We've used aid to build capacities so we won't need aid in future.

...was treading on dangerous water there... (on Phil Neville)