A young woman asked the great preacher Charles Spurgeon if it was possible to reconcile God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility. “Young woman, ” said he. “You don’t reconcile friends

The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that.

Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive.

Nothing has done more damage to the Christian view of life than the hideous notion that those who are truly spiritual have lost all interest in the world and its beauties.

Christianity teaches righteousness, not rights. It emphasizes honor, not equality. A Christian's concern is what is owed to the other, not what is owed to himself.

God will never disappoint us. He loves us and has only one purpose for us : holiness, which in His kingdom equals joy.

If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline.

Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always was a woman of excess, of zeal and greed, I find the effort useless.

If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable.

I'm busy communicating ideas.... I want you to know what I'm thinking. If you feel a connection, good. If you don't, fine.

The square = feeling, the white field = the void beyond this feeling.

"We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again."

Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again

Frequent discontent must proceed from frequent hardships.

She never thought she was good at making friends. But maybe she was just trying to be friends with the wrong people.

I suspect that much of our praying to be used is selfish, and underneath it is the sneaking desire to make our mark and be recognized.