Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.

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.

Women are unhappy in their marriages because they want men to be more related than most men know how to be. And men are unhappy in their marriages because their women seem so unhappy with them.

Your opponents do not want you to persevere

A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

Never give up, no, never give up If you're looking for something easy You might as well give it up.

Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.

I'm having trouble managing the mansion. What I need is a wife.

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

Realize you are worthy of your life and live accordingly.

And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.

We become what we love. Whatever you are giving your time and attention to, day after day, is the kind of person you will eventually become.