the disorders of your hearts, and their sinful workings are as words before God.

Your mercies are more than your afflictions.

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.

I beseech you to consider that God does not deal by you as you deal with him.

One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.

It is the happiness of heaven to have God be all in all.

Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.

A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.

What is the duty of the circumstances God has put me into?

Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so much.

Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which will certainly grow up to eternal life.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

God speaks to those who are prepared in their hearts to listen. Discern the voice from heaven above the noisy din of earth’s confusion.

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period

I loved to play, I was competitive, I wanted to win, that was all I knew. In the first few years tennis is a game. Later, it becomes a job.

I don't want to do something just for money or fame; I have to enjoy working on it! If I start to work for everyone and everything, I could not look at myself in the mirror again.

It ain't what things actually are, it's all they stand for.

I am not a person who I am thinking about what I achieved or what I don't achieve. I am a person who try to enjoy the moment. That's what I do.

When you were built to be tall, you will endanger your position if you lower your perspective

When you're a parent, then you still have to commit to this concept of, "Okay, I'm basically out of action now for three months."