It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.

Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.

I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother.

Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.

Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.

Hell itself does not contain greater monsters of iniquity than you and I might become. Within the magazine of our hearts there is power enough to destroy us in an instant, if omnipotent grace did not prevent

I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost."