When we are calling to God to turn the eye of His favor towards us He is calling to us to turn the eye of our obedience towards Him.

Hope for the best, get ready for the worst, and then take what God chooses to send.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

Christ's followers cannot expect better treatment in the world than their Master had.

The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.

It was the greatest honor God did to man that he made man in the image of God; but it is the greatest dishonor man has done to God that he has made God in the image of man.

The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it.

There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

After a storm comes a calm.

Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.

She is made up of depths even the ocean couldn't fathom.

Walking with her man, Lost in a dream

Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she's seen tougher.

Dying legacies are a miserable substitute for living benevolence.

We live in a time of instant everything, courtesy of the electronic highway. It creates a community of toddlers. When they don't get immediate gratification, they get petulant and sulky.

Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed.

The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.

The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.

If you don't know,say so. It's a simple statement that enhances credibility.

Swans in the winter air A white perfection have