We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.

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.

Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible.

It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.

Don't go so deep in yourself that you no longer exist for your partner and for the character and for the play.

Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I'd made before it.

The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.

People only hate what they see in themselves.

I was a homely kid with freckles that came out every spring and stuck on me till Christmas.

Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.

The worst moment in my life was when I was seven years old and I discovered that there was a thing such as racism. You don't know you're different until someone lets you know.

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.