I used to read in books how our fathers persecuted mankind. But I never appreciated it. I did not really appreciate the infamies that have been committed in the name of religion, until I saw...

I wrestled through many sleepless nights after God became real to me. I can only describe this period of my life as 2 years of mental agony.

Your emotions will wander like a vagabond when you’re indebted. Those happy moments with friends will soon be interrupted with a frowning creditor in your sub-conscious, and all your frenzy will be taken aback.

Reaction timeTouch the underside of a penny you find on the streetDoesn’t feel any different unless you close your eyesI can taste the copper in my mouth nowseeping from between my teethThere’s an explanation I’m...

Clouds shed the agony of the sky and rain concludes it by covering us in filth. What do you think about the puddles of mud and traffic jams? I so hate rain.

Oh, Lord, bestow me with the power, that as much as I love her, I extinguish the need of loving her within me.

You will come across people who always affirm by everything you say, but at the hour of need, they simply disappear! Stay away from such people or simply don’t fall for their promises.

The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional – and not some other kind of reality.

{Wells discussing his experiences with Christianity}I realised as if for the first time, the menace of these queer shaven men in lace and petticoats who had been intoning, responding, and going through ritual gestures at...

Nobody is responsible for your sorrows and poverty, not even the devil. It is the work of the enemies of time that lives in some men, and their names are, ‘Laziness and Procrastination’.

The day I became a writerit wasn’t the day a whore paid me in sexin exchange for one of my bookswhich happened often and more and moreas time went onit wasn’t the first time someone...

Amy! Never underestimate the rare tears of man..because that’s always a sign that he has lost hope,out of options and more dangerously has nothing to lose…

The great souls distinguish with two things; their greater needs and their greater agony.

Every heart needs a cutting part sharper than a blade to stab agony

It is life that fights and struggles and rages; life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on, even if but for one futile instant longer… Whereas I, I come softly...

I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small pains.

Buy laughter with tears, and you’ll be rich forever.

It ended by my almost believing (perhaps actually believing) that this was perhaps my normal condition. But at first, in the beginning, what agonies I endured in that struggle! I did not believe it was...

Everyone was busy down in the town streets. Some are searching for wealth, others seeking glory. Some want to be become famous, while others want to be worthy…it’s a rotten world actually.

Some might say; loving is worse than hating, yet leaving is the worst.

Some pain has no relief,it can only be sealed You can grasp the wound to feel the scar unhealed.

The healing is my working out my salvation. The need constant because my desire for seperateness constantly wrestles with my need for oneness with Jesus. The search for Jesus is bigger, deeper and agonizing.