Where reasons are given, we don't need faith. Where only darkness surrounds us, we have no means for seeing except by faith.

George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.

The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.

The only crown Jesus ever wore on earth was a crown of thorns.

If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.

A wife, if she is very generous, may allow that her husband lives up to perhaps eighty percent of her expectations. There is always the other twenty percent that she would like to change, and she may chip away at it for the whole of their married life without reducing it by very much. She may, on the other hand, simply decide to enjoy the eighty percent, and both of them will be happy.

When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).