“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”

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.

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.

I do believe we slander Christ when we think we are to draw the people by something else but the preaching of Christ crucified.

Christians are not so much in danger when they are persecuted as when they are admired.

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.

It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.