If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.

The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.

Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?

The quest for glory can never be satisfied, it must be extinguished.

Lord God...use me as Your instrument -- but do not forsake me, for if ever I should be on my own, I would easily wreck it all.