Faith has this excellency, that it is able to bring life out of death, light out of darkness. It has a kind of creating virtue.

Your mercies are more than your afflictions.

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.

I beseech you to consider that God does not deal by you as you deal with him.

One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.

It is the happiness of heaven to have God be all in all.

Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.

A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.

What is the duty of the circumstances God has put me into?

Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so much.

Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which will certainly grow up to eternal life.

To dream is to starve doubt, feed hope.

Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.

I was more feminine. I was a girly-girl until I moved to New York. Then I got really into the androgynous look of the early-'90s club scene.

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.

We are all connected to the ocean. Without healthy oceans, no life, not even on land, can exist.

Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they will go.

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And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.

More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.

Our true passions are selfish.