Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.

The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.

He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.

The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet.

Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.

Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself.

Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.

Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.

Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.

Man’s holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man’s greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.

He that will play with Satan's bait, will quickly be taken with Satan's hook.

The plural of anecdote is not data.

I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.

Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.

cookbooks, I found, are intended for people with time to cook - and, surprisingly often, for people who already know how to cook.

If you look at communal experiments in general for any amount of time, you'll find a lot of horrors: raped children, sexual slavery, eugenics experiments, on and on.

I've never done an album in the same place really - I like to be able to remember where I did every single one of them .

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.

The beautiful thing about pain is that it evokes honesty.

fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.