No work nor deed of ours whatsoever, no not faith itself, can be the condition of the covenant of grace properly so called; but only Christ's fulfilling all righteousness.

Faith is the soul going out of itself for all its wants.

The law discovers the disease, and the gospel the physician.

Free grace will fix those whom free will shook down into a gulf of misery.

Good education is not regeneration. Education may chain up men's lusts, but cannot change their hearts.

Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends it, and we should own and reverence His hand in it.

If a man be new-born, he will desire the sincere milk of the word.

Saving faith is the faith of God's elect; the special gift of God to them, wrought in them by his Spirit.

Call it no more free-will, but slavish lust; free to evil, but free from good, till regenerating grace loosens the bands of wickedness.

The natural man cannot but resist the Lord's offering to help him; yet that resistance is infallibly overcome in the elect, by converting grace.

The gospel casts out a rope to hale sinners to land; but the sinner has no hands to lay hold on it; his very faith must be wrought in him by the Spirit.

To die hating them, that was freedom.

Putting our art out there is one of the biggest risks we can take. It's a special kind of vulnerability. It takes guts to be an artist.

I fell in love with Twitter. Fathers, lock up your deadlines.

The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.

I was studying with Joe Allard, which was great, as a saxophone student. Being able to study with Joe Allard was an incredible experience.

Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader.

It's easy. [Black man] is - he's separate already. The fact that you have Harlem, the fact that you have the Negro ghetto and the so-called Negro slum, he's already separate.

Some combinations of people are toxic, you know? You have to find the right one that isn't just going to explode into fiery ash and destruction.

Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.

I do not intend to prejudge the past.