“You must keep all earthy treasures out of your heart, and let Christ be your treasure, and let Him have your heart.”

To trust God in the light is nothing, but trust him in the dark-that is faith.

Unless you have forgiven others you read your own death warrant when you repeat the Lord’s Prayer.

We wept when we were born though all around us smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all around us weep.

Defend the Bible? I’d sooner defend a lion. You don’t defend the Bible; you open its cage and let it roar.

It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.

Unbelief will destroy the best of us; faith will save the worst of us.

A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats.

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

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

I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.

Behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.

The best love come from the heart, not from the mouth.

Real charity is giving from the heart without taking credit.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.