I serve, " should be the motto of all the princes of the royal family of heaven.

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.

We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

His silent, stony face was only inches away now. He was so near, so terribly near – and then he moved to close the last bit of distance.

There was no jealousy on the part of a new spouse over the love or affection a man or woman shared with a former spouse. It was considered a blessing to have had such loves in one's life.

It depends on the conscience otherwise

The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.

Maybe it's a compliment to the film that you can't do that with it, that it can't be explained in 15 seconds.

Life isn't fair,' Skulduggery said. 'In my experience, death isn't so different.

When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.

Our goal must be simple. We must have a Christian nation built on God's law, on the ten Commandments. No apologies.

We are all descended from monsters.