The best most beautiful and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

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.

I also have a list of favorite noises. It has one item on it: Kit's laugh.

If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

Music connects us to freedom

In the end, that's a blind alley - we have to get back to being able to think on our feet and react.

There's always the feeling of getting stronger. I think that's what keeps me going.

As much as Id love to be a successful actor, the thought of being recognised in the street is petrifying.

Online writing is supplementary, complementary, another part of the whole, something that's only as important as one's investment in it.

When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.

The damage that we do in the service of whatever motivates us in life has a direct effect, mostly on our kids.

We don't beat the Reaper by living longer. We beat the Reaper by living well.