I am the fool, and must be the sufferer, if it be not of God.

I shall omit former particulars, and begin with informing the Reader, that, in 1792, I was strangely visited, by day and night, concerning what was coming upon the whole earth.

I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.

Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.

In this manner, I continued with Satan for ten days. His answer and blasphemy were too shocking to pen; till I was worn out with rage and malice against him, I could not bear myself.

At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers.

The end of all things is at hand; that Satan's kingdom will be destroyed, and Satan chained down for a thousand years, and Christ's kingdom established upon earth.

My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral of Exeter. I was assured, before I sent it, he would not answer it.

In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men.

The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.

I shall now proceed to my own experience, which hath truly convinced me, the Lord is awakened as one out of sleep; and the voice of the Lord will shake terribly the earth.

Jokes are many things. 'Funny' is only one of them.

Solitude is sanity.

They say love inspires. Guess what inspires more? An enemy.

If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change. No matter what.

The love of a father is one of nature's greatest masterpieces.

Don't allow yourself to be upset and disturbed. Hold your peace because without it you have no power.

Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin.

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

I don't want to be so confident in myself.

One of the reasons that millionaires are economically successful is that they think differently.