Everything is wrong until Jesus sets it right.

What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.

There are two classes of Christians: the proud who imagine they are humble and the humble who are afraid they are proud. There should be another class: the self-forgetful who leave the whole thing in the hands of Christ and refuse to waste any time trying to make themselves good. They will reach the goal far ahead of the rest.

We who live in this nervous age would be wise to meditate on our lives and our days long and often before the face of God and on the edge of eternity. For we are made for eternity as certainly as we are made for time, and as responsible moral beings we must deal with both.

If you want to be changed, read a good book.

The fruit is what really matters, not how gnarly or beautiful the apple tree is.

Be hard on yourself and easy on others. Carry your own cross but never lay one on the back of another