“The best way to live above all fear of death is to die every morning before you leave your bedroom.”

God has so made man’s heart that nothing can ever fill it but God himself.

There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.

I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church.

The Word of God is like a lion. You don’t have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.

My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me.

God works all things together for your good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship towards the port.

Praying without fervency is like hunting with a dead dog.

Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. Great faith must have great trials.

The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case.

Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.

Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness.

Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.

We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us.

I have heard of some good old woman in a cottage, who had nothing but a piece of bread and a little water, and lifting up her hands, she said, as a blessing, What! all this, and Christ too?

It’s a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards.

Do not go on His errands till first you have sat at His feet.

My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight

Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form…without light I am not only invisible but formless as well; and to be unaware of one’s form is to live a death…the truth is the light and light is the truth.

…women who ‘adjust’ as housewives, who grow up wanting to be ‘just a housewife,’ are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps…they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.

I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.

The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come.

Death is the only real elegance.