Morality divorced from the doctrines of the gospel is not that holiness which the gospel requires.

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.

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

The owner of actions [doer] is called a worldly person [sansaari].

Live as though today is your last, love as though tomorrow will never come, and dream as if there are no limits.

She never answered. She couldn’t. All she could do was stare, reaching toward him with her gaze alone, pulling him to drown in the sorrow of those depthless black pools.

I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.

Call me a sinner, Mock me maliciously: I was your insomnia, I was your grief.

Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.

...I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp.

At the darkest moment comes the light.

It's probably the most personal project [The Fourth Phase] I've done, which changed the dynamic a little bit.