Real prayer is communion with God

Instead of a river, God often gives us a brook, which may be running today and dried up tomorrow. Why? To teach us not to rest in our blessings, but in the blesser Himself.

Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.

It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.

The Bible is no lazy man's book! Much of its treasure, like the valuable minerals stored in the bowels of the earth, only yield up themselves to the diligent seeker.

True liberty is not the power to live as we please, but to live as we ought.

Grace can neither be bought, earned, or won by the creature. If it could be, it would cease to be grace.

The great mistake made by most of the Lord’s people is in hoping to discover in themselves that which is to be found in Christ alone.

Growing in grace is a deepening realization of our nothingness; it is a heartfelt recognition that we are not worthy of the least of God's mercies.

Unbelief is infectious! The unbelief of one strengthens the unbelief of another, just as the faith of one strengthens the faith of another.

Happy the soul that has been awed by a view of God's majesty

I have been…To every depth of my heartTo every height of my mindTo every extent of my worldI see only one nameIt’s yours…

Don't get so holy, Pearce. Life isn't holy.

Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are.

My biggest regret is that I didn't listen to my intuition as it was yelling at me.

Just because something doesn't last forever, it doesn't mean it wasn't meaningful while it did last. It doesn't mean it wasn't important.

The person who has been photographed, not the total person, is dead, dead for having been seen.

Luther deters me from solitariness; but he does not mean from a sober solitude that rallies our scattered strengths and prepares us against any new encounter from without.

The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own.

When you're jumping so high for something so far up in the sky, you have to know that there is definitely someone there who can catch you, someone who knows how to catch you and when.

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression