It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
My soul is of more value than ten thousand worlds.
No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us.
He is bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, a garment to the naked, healing to the wounded; and whatever a soul can desire is found in Him.
The knowledge of Christ is profound and large. All other sciences are but shadows; this is a boundless, bottomless ocean. Though something of Christ be unfolded in one age, and something in another, yet eternity itself cannot full unfold him.
Christ [is] the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are gathered into the ocean, which is congregation or meeting-place of all waters in the world: so Christ is that ocean in which all true delights and pleasures meet. . . .
Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then.
Having Zoe saved my life. It was my wake-up call. There were so many things I didn't want to pass on to her.