Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts. He who doth not kill sin in this way takes no steps toward his journey's end.

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.

Humble is pride exhibited through humility.

Sometimes the person you fall for isn’t ready to catch you.

And I will never again underestimate the power of anticipation. There is no better boost in the present than an invitation into the future.

I'm reading a lot of poetry because it's a lot easier to dip in and dip out when you've got 10 minutes to yourself.

I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.

You mention the Navy, for example, and the fact that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.

Matterhorn is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.

The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court.

I don't make movies with the idea that people are going to walk out of them feeling comfortable or better about themselves or more secure in their own biases or opinions.

The winter is made and you have to bear it, The winter web, the winter woven, wind and wind, For all the thoughts of summer that go with it In the mind, pupa of straw, moppet of rags.