“The most likely man to go to hell is the man who has nothing to do on earth. Idle people tempt the devil to tempt them.”

“Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.”

“There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on H...”

“When your will is God's will, you will have your will.”

“Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread themdigest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make...”

“Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity. ”

“Nobody can see pain. They have no frame of reference for pain that's happening to someone else. They can only see inactivity - which they interpret as laziness.”

“It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from meif much has been denied me, much,...”

“God's time is slow, patient, and kind and welcomes friendship; it is a way of being in the fullness of time that is not determined by productivity, success, or linear movements toward personal goal...”

“Jesus-shaped spirituality hears Jesus say "believe and repent," but the call that resonates most closely in the heart of a disciple is "follow me." The command to follow requires that we take a dai...”

“The engine that drives all your activities is hope. What you hope in shapes you.”

“I assumed my first undivided responsibility.”

“Behind Calvary's cross is the throne of heaven.”

“That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our suffering is under the control of an all-powerful and all-loving God. Our suffering has meaning ...”

“Man is most free when he is most guided.”