The law discovers the disease, and the gospel the physician.

Faith is the soul going out of itself for all its wants.

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.

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.

Each new day on earth is a sacred moment.

What is the point of living this beautiful life if you do not have a mission that ends up making the world a better place to live.

When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences.

Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides.

The reason why men who mind their own business succeed is that they have so little competition.

Silence isn't golden, it's deadly. It's a vacuum that fills up with ghosts.

The only protection against INJUSTICE in man is POWER?Physical, financial and scientific.

I would be psyched to get a phone call from Al Sharpton. I need to find out who does his hair. It's beautiful. It's a gorgeous mane.

Ontological questions are generally beside the point, hardly more than a form of harassment.

Ethical inquiry has always been motivated by the aim of improving human conduct. It doesn't follow from that that the goal is to produce a complete rule book that would be applicable to all cases.