"God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing."

"Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead."

"Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God."

"For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense."

"God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head."

"Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything."