Thy faith never looks so grand in summer weather as it does in winter?

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.

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the results of sudden impulses and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.

I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.

You have to give it your all to be successful.

My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction

Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.

I was not allowed to date wrestlers, or anyone else in the company, across the board.