A sheep in the midst of wolves is safe compared with the Christian in the midst of ungodly men. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You shall find it greatly mitigates the sorrow of bereavements, if before bereavement you shall have learned to surrender every day all the things which are dearest to you into the keeping of your gracious God.

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me. They were good in their way once, and so were the clothes I wore when I was ten years old; but I have outgrown them. Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.