While rose-buds scarcely show'd their hue, But coyly linger'd on the thorn.

We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.

The doctrines of grace stand or fall together, and together they point to one central truth: salvation is all of grace because it is all of God; and because it is all of God, it is all for His glory.

No one ever truly comes to know, honor, or worship God without being changed in the process

A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people.

Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans; High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

The world's theology is easy to define. It is the view that human beings are basically good, that no one is really lost, that belief in Jesus Christ is not necessary for salvation.

Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?

Here hyacinths of heavenly blue, shook their rich tresses to the morn.

There is a flower, a little flower With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky.

Life is sacred story.

let yourself cry, OK? One of the worst feelings in the world is being unable to cry and eventually it…starts to make things darker.

On this day, so full for Americans of thoughts connected with their National Independence, we may not forget that Americans have yet other grounds for gratitude to the people of the Netherlands.

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

I will usually be in denial about that, too, because I really don't like that. Sometimes I will recognize it and sometimes someone will say, "are you okay?" And then you think, "Oh, maybe I'm not."

If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?

i wish i was away in Ingo far across the briny sea sailing over deepest waters where neither care nore worry trouble me

While we keep aloof in general statements, there is little fruit to be expected; it is the hand-fight that does execution.

The true work of God is all good, since it is existence.

It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.