Tis a more glorious effect of power to make that holy that was so depraved and under dominion of sin, than to confirm holiness on that which before had nothing of the contrary.

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.

There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.

Sixty years is too brief a compass for man’s imagination. The incomplete joys of this world can never satisfy his heart.

Life has the meaning we give it, no more, no less.

A jealous husband is an ugly thing.

God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.

Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.

Only our own strength, a strong conservative party, can prevent Red-Red-Green from taking power at the federal level in 2017.

What is wrong with you? Many, many things.

Kick him when he's down, he's easier to reach.

I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.