Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
The gospel to me is simply irresistible.
Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.
Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.
Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.
One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.
It is not certain that everything is uncertain.
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.