the more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy.

When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.

Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.

I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.

Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.

When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.

Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve

The longest journey is not the journey from Asia to Antarctica, but it is the journey to know yourself.

Why can't we breathe now, In this moment we have breath?

Edinburgh is alive with words.

Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest.

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.

The church is God's vineyard.

Don't walk in with a colonial mindset and say, "We know your problem and we're going to fix it."