If we would make it evident that our conversion is sound, we must loathe and hate sin from the heart.

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.

The world promises you so much...and leaves you empty. God's promises are for real and forever.

I don't care about that. The Green Coat is enough for me.

What gets celebrated gets replicated.

I'm so scared of flying.

Is our time up and on to the next fire / Got my fingers burnt and cut into the wire.

Portland is a pretty magnificent place to live.

Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.

I find a lot of inspiration in street style and watching women walk, the way they wear things and what they're wearing.

It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away with this convention.

The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker.