“Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.”

Prayer doesn’t change things – God changes things in answer to prayer.

While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith.

True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.

True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.

Sometimes it seems things go by too quickly. We are so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take the time to enjoy where we are.

Sometimes it seems things go by too quickly. We are so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take the time to enjoy where we are.

True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.

Sometimes it seems things go by too quickly. We are so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take the time to enjoy where we are.

There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.

Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.

The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it.. We must adore its loftiness rather than investigate it, so that we do not remain overwhelmed by so great a splendor.

The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.

Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

A written word is the choicest of relics.

Too many of us are taking our dreams to our graves. Songs that were never sung. Poems never written. Businesses never started. Relationships never formed. Books never written. Dreams never lived.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.