God's children improve all advantages to advance their grand end; they labour to grow better by blessings and crosses, and to make sanctified use of all things.

There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.

Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away paradise. Therefore in all temptations consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.

The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.

Gospel repentance is not a little hanging down of the head. It's a working of the heart until your sin becomes more odious to you than any punishment for it.

It would be a good contest amongst Christians, one to labour to give no offence, and the other to labour to take none. The best men are severe to themselves, tender over others.

It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell.

Times are bad, God is good.

Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.

God knows we have nothing of ourselves, therefore in the covenant of grace he requires no more than he gives, but gives what he requires, and accepts what he gives.

God takes a safe course with His children, that they may not be condemned with the world, He permits the world to condemn them, that they may not love the world, the world hates them.

There are only two things really that even the best of best human beings crave -redemption and revenge. Lucky for me, both meant the same things.

The world holds two classes of men; intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.

When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.

Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame-thrower.

I have always enjoyed being a part of his life. I've always loved him, and he's always loved me.

I feel like I'm really lucky.

Giving birth to something that could possibly change the lives of millions of people for possibly decades, hundreds of years, whatever the length of time the run is, is a great feeling.

There are people in the world who desperately want not to have to believe in Darwinism .

My suspicion is that once you have literacy in place, the readership has not changed very much.

I'm never sure if I'll ever write another song, what the song will be about and if what initially sparked the beginning of a song might complete it.