If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.

The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel.

The best evidence of the Bible's being the word of God is to be found between its covers. It proves itself.

To be in Christ is the source of the Christian life; to be like Christ is the sum of his excellence; to be with Christ is the fullness of his joy.

The grace of God exalts a man without inflating him, and humbles a man without debasing him.

The gospel is so simple that small children can understand it, and it is so profound that studies by the wisest theologians will never exhaust its riches.

Faith is not a blind, irrational conviction. In order to believe, we must know what we believe, and the grounds on which our faith rests.

Sanctification is not a work of nature, but a work of grace. It is a transformation of character effected not by moral influences, but supernaturally by the Holy Spirit.

This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him

The doctrines of grace humble man without degrading him and exalt him without inflating him.

When we are weak, then are we strong. When most empty of self, we are most full of God.

Wise people problems, becomes everyone's solution. Foolish people solutions becomes everyone's problem.

I am not grown up, because I grow everyday.

She knew then that white was more than a color: It was a cold, pale shade of understanding that seems to take all of your hope away.

Do Not Grope To Life By Pursuing Education Alone

Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.

I'm not the beautiful one.

Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you.

I hope that by joining The Giving Pledge, it will encourage others to do the same.