If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.

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.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.

Biomimicry is basically taking a design challenge and then finding an ecosystem that's already solved that challenge, and literally trying to emulate what you learn.

Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That's Buddhist morality.

When you have spent too much time with something, you may lose sight of what's marvelous about it.

In a home where there is an able-bodied husband, he is expected to be the breadwinner.

We are discovering today that several of the premises which are deeply ingrained in our way of life are simply untrue and become pathogenic when implemented with modern technology.

The Millennium Development Goals can be met by 2015, but only if all involved break with business as usual and dramatically accelerate and scale up action now.

I think that's becoming more and more of a priority, letting other aspects of life take precedent over making music, or just approaching the whole thing more holistically.

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.