Many pray with their lips for that for which their hearts have no desire.

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.

Let yourself be gutted. Let it open you. Start here.

All things do go a-courting, In earth, or sea, or air, God hath made nothing single But thee in His world so fair.

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

I can paint until I'm forty. After that I intend to dry up.

Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation

I hear you. I just don't believe a word you say.

What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.

We should set goals within the limits of our resources while working to the limits of our powers.

I used to spend all of my time projecting. I was never in the moment. It was always tomorrow or next week or two months from now. That was one of the reasons I always had this sense of anxiety.

But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.