...there is more good in contentment, than there is in the thing that you would fain have to cure your discontent...

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.

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

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.

Life is like a story

The true person is Not anyone in particular; But like the deep blue color Of the limitless sky, It is everyone, Everywhere in the world.

Purity of heart means the control of the imagination and the rigorous care of the affections.

You learn a lot as a kid, like you don't know anything. I didn't know what was gonna happen if I opened the door. I thought I was gonna be in another world somehow.

Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?

Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

I think it is important to maintain your personality, your roots, very important.

We men who serve science serve only a reflection in a mirror.

Enlightenment is the realization of the oneness of being, where otherness disappears.

I've always made music - pretty much since I was born.