You can go down a list of footballers since the Premier League and I don't think David Beckham would probably be in the first 1,000.
The highest earthly enjoyments are but a shadow of the joy I find in reading God's Word.
I ground my faith upon God's word, and not upon the church.
The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.
Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord.
The works of God are great mysteries and may truly always be hidden from us, however it is not wrong to lead your own personal enquiry through your prayers to the Lord.
God and posterity will show me more favour
Sometimes I dream that I'm working; that's awful. When you awaken after a big, surprising dream, you feel it's very interesting. When you sit and write it down, you realize it's a very poor script. But I may find ideas while dozing.
Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it
Prayer is the acid test of the inner man's strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all perseverance until the answer comes. A weak one grows weary and fainthearted in the maintenance of praying.
I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades.