God is our portion, Christ our companion, the Spirit our Comforter, Earth our lodge, and Heaven is our home.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

Say much of what the Lord has done for you, but say little of what you have done for the Lord.

When your will is God's will, you will have your will.

The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.

When the pangs shoot through our body, and ghastly death appears in view, people see the patience of the dying Christian. Our infirmities become the black velvet on which the diamond of God's love glitters all the more brightly. Thank God I can suffer ! Thank God I can be made the object of shame and contempt, for in this way God shall be glorified.

There is no other place where the heart should be so free as before the mercy seat. There, you can talk out your very soul, for that is the best prayer that you can present. Do not ask for what some tell you that you should ask for, but for that which you feel the need of, that which the Holy Spirit has made you to hunger and to thirst for, you ask for that.