When I cannot enjoy the faith of assurance, I live by the faith of adherence.

Hope for the best, get ready for the worst, and then take what God chooses to send.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

Christ's followers cannot expect better treatment in the world than their Master had.

The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.

It was the greatest honor God did to man that he made man in the image of God; but it is the greatest dishonor man has done to God that he has made God in the image of man.

The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it.

There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

After a storm comes a calm.

Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.

Gilbert?"Some days I hate all those who know my name.

There are anonymous poems and poets without poems.

…So when the last and dreadful hourThis crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

And the more you love someone, the safer it is to be mad at them. Love can handle mad, no problem.

Tell the President to stand up to our enemies, not cower to them or make excuses for them!

The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.

A man who is too afraid to admit his fears is a man who won’t overcome them.

Some things can’t be ignored. You can only conquer your past if you choose to face it.

Here I was again tonight forcing laughter, faking smiles Same old tired, lonely place