The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.

When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.

We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.

Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.

Praise and glory to God for whom nothing is too hard

There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk.

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.