Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors.

A man's free will cannot cure him even of the toothache, or a sore finger; and yet he madly thinks it is in its power to cure his soul.

The greatest judgment which God himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man is to leave him in the hand of his own boasted 'free'-will.

Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to Thy cross I cling

Grace alone makes the elect gracious; grace alone keeps them gracious; and the same grace alone will render them everlastingly glorious in the heaven of heavens.

Faith, repentance, and holiness are no less the free gifts of God than eternal life.

Not the labors of my hands Can fulfill thy Law's demands: Could my zeal no respite know, Could my tears forever flow, All for Sin could not atone: Thou must save, and Thou alone!

Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in Thee.

That opinion, which supposes personal sanctification to be unnecessary to final glorification, stands in direct opposition to every dictate of reason, to every declaration of scripture.

To a true believer, death is but going to church: from the church below to the church above.

Whom should we love, if not Him who loved us, and gave himself for us?

Physical pain was easy. It would always pass in the end. All it needed was time - a ticking clock.

Paul McCartney's dad told him that when he was a kid. "Son, play the piano and when you go to parties, the girls will come to you."

Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]

Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?

A people's speech is the skin of its culture.

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

Technology is, in the broadest sense, mind or intelligence or purpose blending with nature.

I consider the decision of my colleagues and friends to be the best birthday present.