If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally - every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher.

Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.

The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.

If you were three times poor, I would still have paid attention to you and fell head over heels in love with you.

Indeed, the only cause of their [Rome] perishing was that they chose for their protectors gods condemned to perish.

As the wind continued to howl and groan through her decaying body, she began to sing her story.

Successful people consistently put their best "self" forward.

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand.

The man [Donald Trump] seems to out-trump himself - no pun intended - every time he speaks in his bid to win the Republican nomination.

I've kind of shut myself off to a lot of new music because I don't want to be influenced by it.

No-one has held back. They have put some definition around the numbers and now we have to wait for the reality.

It was the perfect moment to tell her. This is my last year. But I couldn’t say it. Not yet. I wanted another minute, another hour, another night of pretending this wasn’t the end.

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.