A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.

You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.

It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.

How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?

Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.

Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.

The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.

He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.

Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.

Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.

As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families.

Not all of the moments what you encountered in your mind are reminisced, the time will remember us.

This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who help call forth human beings from deep inside hopelessness.

I always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book.

Until we realize that our money power is our sovereign power we cannot act as sovereigns

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

Ive always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise.

Magic things are fond of deceptions.