"I would love God even if he damned me, because he was so gracious to others."

"A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty."

"It is not great faith but true faith that saves. And the salvation lies not in the faith but in the Christ in whom faith trusts."

"Every moment thou waitest does but increase thy misery; thine attempts to plume thyself and make thyself fit for Jesus are all vanity."

"My inward experience has often been a wilderness; but Thou hast owned me still as Thy beloved, and poured streams of love and grace into me to gladden me, and make me fruitful."