A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.

You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.

It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.

How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?

Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.

Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.

The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.

He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.

Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.

For a moment we're both silent, staring. I wonder if either of us really sees the other clearly anymore or if we stuck looking at the frozen images of who we used to be.

There’s nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility

The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do, and so should we.

O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

The key to success is being in the right place at the right time, recognizing that you are there, and taking action!

Sometimes people who have their lives played out in public don't feel they have the privacy to continually journey within. I did, and that's why I have longevity.

I knew you'd decide to be all right again.

Those who would trade safety for freedom deserve neither.