If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

Man who is not sanctified to the extent of obeying God rather than Satan has not been justified either, making it an obvious fact that he is never saved without either.

Satan's number one weapon is pride. God's number one defense is humility.

God's gift to us is who we are and our gift to God is who we become.

Don't trust to hold God's hand; let Him hold yours. Let Him do the holding, and you the trusting.

The Christian life isn't difficult--it is impossible. If we don't know that, we will try to do things ourselves. Faith is not necessary when we think we can do it ourselves. Faith comes along when we realize that we cannot do it on our own.

Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence.

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.' All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.

I have had prayers answered--most strangely so sometimes--but I think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.

Resolved, never to do anything, which I should be afraid to do, if it were the last hour of my life.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.