Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord.

The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.

The highest earthly enjoyments are but a shadow of the joy I find in reading God's Word.

The works of God are great mysteries and may truly always be hidden from us, however it is not wrong to lead your own personal enquiry through your prayers to the Lord.

God and posterity will show me more favour

Lord, into thy hands I commend my spirit!

I do wash my hands in innocency, before God and the face of you, good Christian people this day.

God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me.

Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart.

So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

There's always tomorrow and it always gets better.

That's one of the things I love about being a songwriter first, last and always, because whether I do it or not, if someone does a great job on it, my work is done.

It's something inside his heart that's bigger than anything. He's got the heart of a lion about to grab something.

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.

[On Hillary Rodham Clinton:] She always looks so adorable, and she's intrepid; she's the biggest bargain America ever got, bigger than that Louisiana Purchase from my French friends.

If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.

If you feel glamorous, you definitely look glamorous.

Stand before your god, bow before your king, kneel before your man.