What is the duty of the circumstances God has put me into?

Your mercies are more than your afflictions.

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.

I beseech you to consider that God does not deal by you as you deal with him.

One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.

It is the happiness of heaven to have God be all in all.

Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.

A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.

Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so much.

Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which will certainly grow up to eternal life.

I am discontented because I have not these things which God never yet promised me, and therefore I sin much against the Gospel, and against the grace of faith.

Anyone that looked like that wouldn't need to tie up girls and imprison them in order to get them to marry him

Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely...

Basic facts tend always to be those most easily overlooked.

I would like to see our society mature, and become more rational and more knowledge-based, less emotion-based.

A Marxist has never written a good novel.

Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys.

If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.

If Israel is attacked, America has their back, not just diplomatically, not just culturally, but militarily.

I always thought if I photographed anyone or anything enough, I would never lose the person, I would never lose the memory, I would never lose the place. But the pictures show me how much I've lost.

Man alone can enslave man.