My desire is to live more to God to-day than yesterday, and to be more holy this hour than the last.

We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works.

We live by faith in a prayer-hearing, soul-converting , soul-sanctifyin g, soul-restoring, soul-comforting God.

God is gracious beyond the power of language to describe.

Whither am I going? To the New World. What to do? To gain honor? No, if I know my own heart. To get money? No: I am going to live to God, and to bring others so to do.

Oh what people of God we ought to be; and grace can make us so!

O what pride, conforming to the world and following its fashions! Warn them, warn them for me, while you have strength and time and be faithful to your duty.

My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.

Preach as if you had seen heaven and its celestial inhabitants, and had hovered over the bottomless pit, and beheld the tortures, and heard the groans of the damned.

Civilisations realise their moronic beliefs.But never condemn them.

Be careful with the kind of company you keep, because behaviors and habits are very contagious.

Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other

Peace hath higher tests of manhood Than battle ever knew.

We should live and learn but by the time we've learned it's too late to live.

The hand will often reveal more than the countenance.

Failure isn't fatal, and success isn't final.

You need your Inner Eye tested, if you ask me.

It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.

Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.