The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.

Confidence is the present tense of hope.

It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.

Imagine hidden in a simpler exterior a secret receptacle wherein the most precious treasure is deposited - there is a spring which has to be pressed, but the spring is hidden, and the pressure must have a certain strength, so that an accidental pressure would not be sufficient. So likewise is the hope of eternity hidden in man's inmost parts, and affliction is the pressure. When it presses the hidden spring, and strongly enough, then the contents appear in all their glory.

It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories.