God knows all that is done in the most secret caverns of the heart. No place is deprived of his presence.

We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.

When we believe that we should be satisfied rather than God glorified in our worship, then we put God below ourselves as though He had been made for us rather than that we had been made for Him.

Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's beauty!

A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.

Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.

Our ignorance of God is too great, because our estimations of God are too little.

Without the heart it is no worship; it is a stage play; an acting a part without being that person really which is acted by us: a hypocrite, in the notion of the word, is a stageplayer.

Pride is self contending with God for preeminence.

Paul was so much taken with Christ, that nothing sweeter than Jesus could drop from his lips and pen.

Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

There are no halfway measures against bigotry, hatred and anti-Semitism. It's got to be rejected totally.

There lived a singer in France of old By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and rain and gold There shone one woman, and none but she.

In some ways, you get to find your voice better in [a sequel] because you have to define how you're doing it differently.

By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.

Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!

I think country music is obviously a great form of music. I think it's cool and has mass appeal.

Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an experimental novel.

To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.