“Jesus doesn't bring anything up from the wells of human nature--He brings them down from above.”

“We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.”

“Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.”

“If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.”

“The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.”

“What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions...”

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

“You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right -- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws ...”

“The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.”

“I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyeilding calling and my passion.”

“J'ai un but, une tche, disons le mot, une passion. Le mtier d'crire en est une violente et presque indestructible."[Letter to Jules Boucoiran, 4 March 1831]”

“In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up. ”