The fight for joy is first and always a fight to see.

There would be no obstacles to overcome. We won’t fight for joy in heaven. But we are not there yet.

If we were perfect—if there were no remaining corruption in our hearts—there would be no fight. There would be no obstacles to overcome. We won’t fight for joy in heaven. But we are not there yet.

Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself.

DOING is often God's remedy for despair.

Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.

By nature, we get more pleasure from God's gifts then from Himself.

The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.

Don't make peace with the sin in your life.

Desire for and delight in God's Word are inseparable.

Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies.

The time's gone by for sentiment and all that foolery. Mercy's all very well but after all it's justice that clinches the bargain.

Would you like me to put you out of your misery, before I put you out of your misery?

Life is a wondrous phenomenon.

That Mick Jagger, I feel sorry for him. After all these years he still can't get no satisfaction.

Some of Paul Scholes' tackles come in so late they arrive yesterday.

If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.

The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.

He thought it might be the most intimate thing possible, to fall asleep next to someone in the afternoon.

Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people, he turned to his friend and said, "Have I not unawares spoken some mischievous thing or other?"

You use metaphor to make yourself feel at home in the world. You use metaphor to extinguish the unknown. The problem is the unknown is where I want to be.