We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.

When we believe that we should be satisfied rather than God glorified in our worship, then we put God below ourselves as though He had been made for us rather than that we had been made for Him.

Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's beauty!

A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.

God knows all that is done in the most secret caverns of the heart. No place is deprived of his presence.

Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.

Our ignorance of God is too great, because our estimations of God are too little.

Without the heart it is no worship; it is a stage play; an acting a part without being that person really which is acted by us: a hypocrite, in the notion of the word, is a stageplayer.

Pride is self contending with God for preeminence.

Paul was so much taken with Christ, that nothing sweeter than Jesus could drop from his lips and pen.

Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.

Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

We spend so much time on the whole world instead of on those who really need us, in a world where rumours are a trend and truth is an afterthought.

You wake up in this here world, my sweet li'l mister, you got to wake up tough. You go out that front door tough of a mornin' and you stay tough 'til lights out—have you learned that?

There's no rule for better writing. Make your own rules, and see what works best for you.

Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.

In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times.

You give up a lot to be in politics. And if you're not there to change the world I don't know what you're there for. I mean, it doesn't make any sense to me.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.

A 2008 poll of 35,000 Americans revealed that 57% of Evangelical church attenders believe that many religions can lead to eternal life.