Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.

If God lights the candle, none can blow it out.

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

If you love anything better than God you are idolaters: if there is anything you would not give up for God it is your idol: if there is anything that you seek with greater fervor than you seek the glory of God, that is your idol, and conversion means a turning from every idol.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus.

Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.