Why do we calculate our forces, and consult with flesh and blood to our grievous wounding? Jehovah has power enough without borrowing from our puny arm.

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.

Take a step towards actualizing the very thing you are persuaded for and do not allow injustice to silence your voice.

Feelings are 'entertained'

Time was made for slaves.

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

What I mean is that conservatives are in a constant state of hair-on-fire, yelling anger.

I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states.

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.

Women are supposed to want to settle down and have a family. That's not for me.

I am the type of guy that always looks into the future. But, of course, you never completely forget a javelin in your shoulder.

Madness is just what a genius looks like to a tiny mind.