Dinah Maria Mulock Quotes

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.

Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.

I don't think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return.

It doesn't matter if the world is pulling you down. With Christ, you have everything.

I cannot express to you how grateful I am that I am a Christian. Before I was a Christian, I went through a time in my life where I just didn't know why I was alive.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

I went to church. I found the light.

Salvation brings the soul a deep awareness of God's love. Life takes on more meaning, for it now has a purpose.

Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat...giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.

Enlightenment is the only real antidote to the world's despair.

An intimate encounter with Jesus is the most transforming experience of human existence. To know him as he is, is to come home. To have his life, joy, love, and presence cannot be compared. A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.

Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of: Wherefore, let they voice, Rise like a fountain for me night and day.

Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.

Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r My soul took hold on thee.

If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ.

Only the soul that loves is happy

There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ.

No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God.

Sunrise What is the name of the deep breath I would take over and over for all of us? Call it whatever you want, it is happiness, it is another one of the ways to enter fire.

And our problems will crumble apart, the soul / blow through like a wind, and here where we live will all be clean again, with fresh bread on the table.

The road to salvation is through truth.

Jesus knows the burdens we carry and the tears we shed, but He is the healer of broken hearts, broken dreams, and broken lives. Trust him. He never fails.

At last I saw Christ as my Saviour. I believed in Him and gave myself to Him. The burden rolled from off me, and a great love for Christ filled my soul. That was more than fifty years ago. I loved Jesus Christ then, but I loved Him more the year after, and more the year after that, and more every year since.