The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify [God]. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?

You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.

It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.

How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?

Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.

Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.

The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.

He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.

Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.

It is when we are confronted with...poignant reminders of mortality that we become most aware of the strangeness and wonder of our brief life on Earth.

Staying out all night and sleeping most of the day is quite a drain on the wallet.

Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions . . . by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.

I've always approached screenplays and so forth with, "How would it really happen?" Not "What's the movie version?" but "What's the real-life version?" Then I just follow my nose.

Man loves man so much that when he flees the city, it is still to seek the crowd, that is, to rebuild the city in the country.

A lack of transparency that fuels the idea that she is either hiding something or simply not someone to be trusted.

You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are doing.

I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.

I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration.