From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.

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.

It’s not really outstanding when you’re standing outOutcry is the only outburst, if you can’t shout

What good were special talents when there was no one to share them with?

You more than anyone else deserve to be loved and happy. Do not remain in any relationship that robs you of those two things.

The problem with the bank managers was not that they were malevolent but that they were mediocre.

There are so many traps. There are so many opportunities. Life is a river and we take our boat and we go down it.

Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" - I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother's lap.

If the fans want me out, I'll put my hands up and leave. Like a proper man. I won't make excuses, I'll leave.

He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.

I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France.