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

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

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

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.

I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.

Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.

And here I am, dying in my bed, like cattle die. May the eyes of cowards never sleep.

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.

If I lived my life by what others were thinkin’, the heart inside me would’ve died.

Just in case you get pneumonia or die. The dangerous bits are always the last days of shooting.

If you’re just letting the time pass at your job, it’s just dead time and you’ll never get it back. If at that job you’re learning and you’re observing and you’re seeing about people and connections, it’s suddenly alive time.