"In my twenty-seventh year, while riding the metro in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) I was overcome with a despair so great that life seemed to stop at once, preempting the future entirely, let alone any meaning. Suddenly, all by itself, a phrase astonished: 'Without God life makes no sense.' Repeating it in astonishment, I rode the phrase up like a moving staircase, got out of the metro and walked into God's light."
"Never let mistakes or wrong directions, of which every man falls into many, discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by finding where we were..."
"Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the..."
"Our fruit is found from our God as to union. The fruit of the branch is directly traceable to the root. Sever the connection, the branch dies, and no...."
"[After making a few converts while being ridiculed by some philosophers,] Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. There he became acquainted with a Jew..."
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