It is necessary to rouse the heart to pray, otherwise it will become quite dry. The attributes of prayer must be: love of God, sincerity, and simplicity.

Our wickedness shall not overpower the unspeakable goodness and mercy of God; our dullness shall not overpower God's wisdom, nor our infirmity God's omnipotence.

A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good.

Love every man in spite of his falling into sin. Never mind the sins, but remember that the foundation of the man is the same - the image of God.

Evil and faults are corrected by good, by love, kindness, meekness, humility, and patience.

Leave all human injustices to the Lord, for God is the Judge, but as to yourself, be diligent in loving everybody with a pure heart.

The longer we remain without confessing, the worse it is for us, the more entangled we become in the bonds of sin, and therefore the more difficult it is to give an account.

Your Lord is a God of mercy and bountifulness: be a source of mercy and bountifulness to your neighbors. If you will be such, you will find salvation yourself with everlasting glory.

'With God all things are possible' (Mk. 10:27). With God the thought itself is deed. He speaks and it is. Short and clear. And all the worlds stand by the Word of God.

The Lord is the accomplishment of everything good that I think, feel and do.

O, how easy it would appear to be to live in simplicity and love, and yet how difficult it is for our corrupt hearts to live in love!

I made up my mind that not only would I become a millionaire, but that I would also raise up millionaires from members of my church

I didn't see life through your eyes. Sure, we have a different set of sight.

I want to gossip about forever / against the part of your back that / is mine.

...the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.

The Industrial Age is not sustainable. It's not sustainable in ecological terms, and it's not sustainable in human terms.

To be honest, I was never very ambitious. And I still am not.

A scary but yet beautiful smile

Well, you certainly are the most wonderfully woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped.

I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.