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.

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.

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.

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.

That's when I realize how much I don't want to be alone, how sobbing should not be a solitary sport..

What once were vices are now manners.

Why are the heavens not filled with light? Why is the universe plunged into darkness?

As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.

All the real things in Russia are done in the villages.

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.

Often when something is going on behind the scenes and people fight for change, the fight will go on and on and on until they understand the mechanism that they're actually fighting against.

Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.

If you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't.