“And every demand that the flesh may make for vindication. Always the Christian must bear about in his body the marks of the Lord Jesus.”

It comes to the one who believes that he who waits upon the Lord shall never be confounded.

No sorrow will ever disturb me, no circumstance will cause me to fret, for I shall rest in the joy of what my Lord is–that is the rest of victory!

Our god is the thing, or person, which we think most precious, for whom we would make the greatest sacrifice, and who moves our heart with the warmest love.

There is nothing–no circumstance, no trouble, no testing–that can ever touch me until.

The crowd one day cried, “Crucify him,” and the whole world united to murder the Son of God, because in their ignorance they knew Him not.

There is no circumstance, no trouble, no testing, that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ, right through to me.

When we get to the end of ourselves, we get to the beginning of God.

A throne is God’s purpose for you; a cross is God’s path for you; faith is God’s plan for you.

Prayed about it, and then we are enabled by Him to tackle the job that needs to be done.

Look up into His lovely face and as you behold Him,

God will never plant the seed of his life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit.

If it has come that far, it has come with great purpose.

He will transform you into His likeness. You do the beholding.

The higher the pinnacle of blessing, authority, and publicity he has attained by grace.

The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.

Let us learn this lesson from Nehemiah: you never lighten the load unless first you have felt the pressure in your own soul.

Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, “This is me and the world be damned!” Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society – Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line.

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

So many people doubted me. They motivated me every single day, to be, who I am.

I pray for you every night. You’ve taught me to feel confident in myself, believe in myself that I can do it when I didn’t think I could do it.

I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.

To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience.

I’m a big believer in dreaming. If you don’t dream it, you can’t become it.

The Hulk, Detective Comics, Action Comics, you name it. Seeing those old books got me interested in new comics, so my friends and I would hit the local comic shop every Saturday to pick up the cool titles of my generation.