Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.

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?

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.

God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.

The world of books, the greatest possessions.

I just recently realized. It's very strange. But doing fight scenes with Kate [Beckinsale], I was little bit more cautious. You can go harder with a guy, which I don't mean as an insult.

The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.

A mental picturing of that which we want, with the complete acceptance and the conviction that it is ours now, will bring it quickly.

I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.

If you approach Billy Martin right, he's Okay. I avoid him altogether.

The president of the United States is a pretty important position, and it's the ideas and policies that matter to me, not the color of their skin.

The only proper mask to wear in life is your own damn face.

Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, Drink off this potion!

I'm a man of history. My vision is guiding me, my clear vision. It is not by chance that the currents of peace are increasing daily inside Israel.