There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience.

Satan's greatest success is in making people think they have plenty of time before they die to consider their eternal welfare.

If private revelations agree with Scripture, they are needless, and if they disagree, they are false.

If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation.

Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God's elect, that they should believe.

Every time we say we believe in the Holy Spirit, we mean we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.

Be killing sin or it will be killing you.

We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.

The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

If the Word does not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us.

may flowers smell their scent!

What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present.

Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And victory is far more interesting to contemplate than revenge.

Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.

The more famous I get, the more I am tolerated, albeit with some head-shaking.

As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.

I met Robert Rodriguez working on a movie called 'Roadracers.'

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.

I'm always the last person they go to with a sequel, because I'm the most skeptical. You know, I'm very proud of what we've done, and I don't want to screw up our series.

What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge