It is a special part of the divine worship that we owe to God, to be content in a Christian way, as has been shown to you.

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.

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.

Saturday night is perfect for writers because other people have "plans.

People do not change, only expression and perception changes.

The multitude is always in the wrong.

I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.

In daytime, they're doing 50-60 pages a day, whereas nighttime, you do seven or eight.

My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.

Dreams are like stars. You may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny.

My hand feels touched as well as it touches; reality says this, and nothing more.

Adrian gave me a look that said I was wasting his time. "Because Jet sounds badass.

Thankfully I'm a better actor than football player, or at least I hope so.