“Of two evils, choose neither.”

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Nearness to God brings likeness to God. The more you see God the more of God will be seen in you.

God gave us sleep to remind us we are not him.

Wherever Jesus may lead us, He goes before us. If we don’t know where we are going, we know with whom we go.

We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.

A man says to me, ‘Can you explain the seven trumpets of the Revelation?’ No, but I can blow one in your ear, and warn you to escape from the wrath to come.

In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.

Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip

If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.

We cannot always trace God’s hand but we can always trust God’s heart.

I have a great need for Christ: I have a great Christ for my need.

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

A person who is really saved by Grace does not need to be told that he is under solemn obligations to serve Christ. The new life within him tells him that. Instead of regarding it as a burden, he gladly surrenders himself, body, soul, and spirit, to the Lord.

Anything is a blessing which makes us pray.

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate. I choose love.

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.

Truth allows no choice.

Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I’d made before it.