Without the Spirit man is so infirm that he cannot, with all other means whatsoever, be enabled to think one right saving thought of God, of Christ, or of his blessed things.

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.

You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.

No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.

If people really see that Christ has removed the fear of punishment from them by taking it into Himself, they won't do whatever they want, they'll do whatever He wants.

The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

Reality is highly overrated.

I like the classic look. Keep it simple. There’s only so much you can wear.

I believe you can joke about anything.

I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.

If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied.

Life without Christ is not life. That's the way it is...If you don't see Christ in everything you do, you are without Christ.

You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

Tears harden lust, though marble wear with raining.