As to myself, if I were not a Calvinist, I think I should have no more hope of success in preaching to men, than to horses or cows.

I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am

Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.

When people are right with God, they are apt to be hard on themselves and easy on other people. But when they are not right with God, they are easy on themselves and hard on others.

Amazing grace! how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found, Was blind but now i see.

Our work is great; our time is short; the consequences of our labors are infinite.

May we sit at the foot of the cross; and there learn what sin has done, what justice has done, what love has done.

Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much.

If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer - His grace sufficient, His promise unchangeable.

Christ has taken our nature into Heaven to represent us; and has left us on earth, with His nature, to represent Him.

This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus.

Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons

But in his duty prompt at every call He watch'd and wept he pray'd and felt for all.

Nah. I'm a tough cookie. Except for the cancer, I'm fine.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.

As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on the run. That life doesn't favor the stability and spatial demands of painting.

I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.

If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?

Money isn't an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.