It is truth alone that capacitates any soul to glorify God.

Satan's greatest success is in making people think they have plenty of time before they die to consider their eternal welfare.

If private revelations agree with Scripture, they are needless, and if they disagree, they are false.

If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation.

Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God's elect, that they should believe.

Every time we say we believe in the Holy Spirit, we mean we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.

Be killing sin or it will be killing you.

We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.

The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

If the Word does not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us.

A woman was counting her grams of gold in Sorrow while another, who had nothing, still counted her Blessings in Joy. Happiness is not what you HAVE, but how you FEEL.

Pride is a hard thing to let go but is it really worth your all

Don't say anything. Just act cool," I whispered. Mavkel started to shiver. "Like this?" it asked. "No, I mean act calm." Mavkel stopped shivering.

Instead of trying to conquer sin by working hard to change our actions, we can conquer sin by trusting Christ to change our affections.

Your job is to meet the right people and read the right books.

Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be a mirror of the invisible, inner self.

If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.

In my more pompous moments I like to think of myself as a writer rather than a humorist, but I suppose that's merely the vanity of advancing age.

When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist.