Earth is embittered to us, that heaven may be endeared.

Hope for the best, get ready for the worst, and then take what God chooses to send.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

Christ's followers cannot expect better treatment in the world than their Master had.

The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.

It was the greatest honor God did to man that he made man in the image of God; but it is the greatest dishonor man has done to God that he has made God in the image of man.

The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it.

There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

After a storm comes a calm.

Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.

Time is the wave upon the shore. It takes some things away, but it brings other things.

If his surroundings could have reflected the feelings inside him, the pictures would have been screaming in pain.

A mother isn’t the person who births you

It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.

France had shown a light to all men, preached a Gospel, all men's good; Celtic Demos rose a Demon, shriek'd and slaked the light with blood.

I emphasize listening. We strive to hear what other people want us to hear, even though they don't always come out and say it directly.

The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.

When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.

There are lots of moments that are great for an actress.

I try as best as I can to have a normal life. People recognise you, of course, and that's very strange. But I sort of leave my working life behind when I go home. That's my other world.