I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.

It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.

How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?

Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.

Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.

The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.

He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.

Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

Zane was pretty sure that worries and bossing were related, like a pair of old aunties.

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.

When all is said and done, the unselfish acts of what we have done without asking for anything in return, will have said it all.

The great thing about him, is that he will not quit.

The inner life is the whole man, and forms all the worth of man.

The common denominator is that we all need help.

That works fine for me . . . Sienna Lauren Snow.

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew