Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence.

Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.

In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. ... My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".