Love believes all things and yet is never deceived.

There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.

Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.

... the more one needs God the more perfect he is. To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself. It is the saddest thing in the world if a human being goes through life without discovering that he needs God!

The question is not "To be or not to be," it is what we should be until we are not.

...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.