To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

Make God's Word your Sourcebook.

There is one safe and happy place, and that is in the will of God.

3rd October, 1871.—I read the whole Bible through four times whilst I was in Manyuema.

18th April, 1872.—I pray the good Lord of all to favor me so as to allow me to discover the ancient fountains of Herodotus, and if there is anything in the underground excavations to confirm the precious old documents, the Scriptures of truth, may He permit me to bring it to light, and give me wisdom to make a proper use of it.

When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.

We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.

To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.

Do you know who taught the eagles to find their prey? Well, that same God teaches His hungry children to find their Father in His Word.