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.

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.

I am discontented because I have not these things which God never yet promised me, and therefore I sin much against the Gospel, and against the grace of faith.

In the tide pool I was riveted by fat pink sea stars sitting like satisfied gangsters and seemingly unconcerned by their exposure

I love Tina Turner. I'm one of Tina Turner's biggest fans. Tina Turner was a big influence on me to become a singer. A role model and in a way she gave me back my confidence in choosing my material.

She said interruptions were simply God's appointments.

Discriminate, discriminate, and again discriminate! Be fastidious. Choose. Select.

In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded

The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.

During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn't just accept the official version of events.