Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee. – Augustine

When we worship the Creator let us increase our trust in our Comforter. Did he create all that we see, and can he not preserve us from evils which we cannot see? – Charles Spurgeon

The pilgrim’s gaze did not stop when he looked upward to the hills but that he looked beyond them to God, who made the mountains. – James Montgomery Boice

“Aslan is a lion - the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh!" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he - quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion"... "Safe?" said Mr. Beaver... "Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you. – C. S. Lewis, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

I’m not afraid of death. I just don’t want to be there when it happens. - Woody Allen

What we believe about who God is, determines how much control other people have over us.

Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance. Luke 15:7

The truth is that the God of the Bible is the kind of God whose greatest delight comes not from making demands but from meeting needs. – Sam Storms

The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it. - Charles Spurgeon

There is no need for two to care, for God to care and the creature too. – Charles Spurgeon