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.

Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.

Children will imitate their fathers in their vices, seldom in their repentance.

Like Jonah, you may lose your gourd, but you cannot lose your God.

We think that we do well to be angry with the rebellious, and so we prove ourselves to be more like Jonah than Jesus.