My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.
Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.
Let us remember the loving-kindness of the Lord and rehearse His deeds of grace. Let us open the volume of recollection, which is so richly illuminated with memories of His mercy, and we will soon be happy.
I only need a mirror to see a sinner.
When my children hear godliness out of my mouth and they see wickedness in my life, then I point them to heaven and I lead them to hell.
To expose our minds constantly to ungodly thinking is a great danger.
Singleness and marriage are both evidences of God’s grace that are to be experienced and sustained purely by the strength which God supplies.
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
The Gospel does not require anything good that man must furnish: not a good heart, not a good disposition, no improvement of his condition, no godliness, no love either of God or men……. . It plants love into his heart and makes him capable of all good works. It demands nothing, but it gives all. Should not this fact make us leap for JOY?
Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.
Better to be always in a minority of one with God - branded as madman, incendiary, fanatic, heretic, infidel - frowned upon by "the powers that be," and mobbed by the populace - or consigned ignominiously to the gallows, like him whose "soul is marching on," though his "body lies mouldering in the grave," or burnt to ashes at the stake like Wickliffe, or nailed to the cross like him who "gave himself for the world," - in defence of the RIGHT, than like Herod, having the shouts of a multitude crying, "It is the voice of a god, and not of a man!"