Our ignorance of God is too great, because our estimations of God are too little.

We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.

When we believe that we should be satisfied rather than God glorified in our worship, then we put God below ourselves as though He had been made for us rather than that we had been made for Him.

Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's beauty!

A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.

God knows all that is done in the most secret caverns of the heart. No place is deprived of his presence.

Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.

Without the heart it is no worship; it is a stage play; an acting a part without being that person really which is acted by us: a hypocrite, in the notion of the word, is a stageplayer.

Pride is self contending with God for preeminence.

Paul was so much taken with Christ, that nothing sweeter than Jesus could drop from his lips and pen.

Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.

A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error.

Sensuality reconciles us with the human race. The misanthropy of the old is due in large part to the fading of the magic glow of desire.

Disgraces are like cherries, one drawes another. [Disgraces are like cherries, one draws another.]

Trade is a social act.

When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.

There's no such thing as reverse racism.

America was built on immigrants, and what they bring 'to the table.'

There are two things you can't argue in film: comedy and eroticism. If something doesn't make you laugh, no one can tell you why it's funny, and it's difficult to reason someone out of an erection.

A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness

Turks continued their previous policy. They would not stop committing massive and most awful massacres that even Leng Timur would not dare to do.