As all the rivers run into the sea, so all delights centre in our Beloved.

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.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

Success becomes inevitable when you fence your destiny with God's word.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

We should render a service to a friend to bind him closer to us, and to an enemy in order to make a friend of him.

The music should be first, not the ego or the personality or the style.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

I think - I don't know, maybe it's nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be - it's gone. It's going to be gone.

I feel like everyone wants to make a movie that they feel passionate about watching.

Sometimes when we try to get outside of ourselves, to be like someone else, you miss out on so many beautiful things that you don't know that you are because you're looking at someone else.