Resolved, to confess frankly to myself all that which I find in myself, either infirmity or sin; and, if it be what concerns religion, also to confess the whole case to God, and implore needed help.

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.

To ease a grieving heart is the world's greatest pleasure, more so, when the heart is yours.

When you can overcome the fear of failure, success will not be far away.

Desire is what lends power to thought, it is that element that separates a wish or a day dream into reality, if properly directed.

Friendship is the perfection of love and superior to love it is love purified exalted proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love Madam may and love does often stop short of friendship.

I am honored to be here as co-chair of President Obama's re-election campaign.

Truth alone can stand the guns of criticism.

To start writing about your life is, from one standpoint, to stop living it. You must avoid adventures today so as to make time for registering those of yesterday.

The battle thing is very important in hip-hop, but at the same time, I want to sit down and have a beer and listen to Rakim.

The environment isn't over here. The environment isn't over there. You are the environment.

Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way.