Glory in nothing, but only in this, that you are in Christ. For God chose you in him; the being you had was in him before the world was.

Judas heard all Christ's sermons.

Heaven would be hell to me without Christ.

If I were to go to heaven, and find that Christ was not there, I would leave immediately; for heaven without Christ would be hell to me.

Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayers and won with thanks.

Oh despise not election! therein lies all your hope, that there is a remnant who shall infallibly be saved.

In Christ are treasures that will require digging to the end of the world.

What is the cause of all God's purposes towards us? Himself. There is no other cause.

The children of believing parents, at least their next and immediate seed, even of us Gentiles now under the gospel, are included by God within the covenant of grace.

Being in Christ, and united to Him, is the fundamental constitution of a Christian.

When God will have any great matters done, he sets his people's hearts to work at prayer by a kind of gracious instinct. He stirs them up and moves their hearts by the influence of his Holy Spirit.

Fear deprives us the fullness of existence.

Never be silent with persons you love and distrust, " Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.

She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.

We're not raising children with the love that we need to.

There is nothing new... everything has roots in the past.

No matter what happens, you always need someone else to look after you at the end.

Anyone who, for 25 years, has built a career on such tenuous foundations as a high-pitched giggle, a raspberry and a sprinkling of top 'Cs' needs all the friends he can get.

It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act.

If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.