So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.
The best advice I can give you: Look unto Jesus, beholding his beauty in the written word.
God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually.
If two angels were sent down from heaven,--one to conduct an empire, and the other to sweep a street,--they would feel no inclination to change employments.
We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to his glory and our own advantage.
I once was lost, but now am found.
By one hour's intimate access to the throne of grace, where the Lord causes His glory to pass before the soul that seeks Him you may acquire more true spiritual knowledge and comfort than a day's or a week's converse with the best of men, or the most.
Great occasions rally great principles, and brace the mind to a lofty bearing, a bearing that is even above itself. But trials that make no occasion at all, leave it to show the goodness and beauty it has in its own disposition. And here precisely is the superhuman glory of Christ as a character, that He is just as perfect, exhibits just as great a spirit in little trials as in great ones.
I`m 100 percent impartial. I`m - my responsibility is to manage this primary nominating contest neutrally and fairly.
One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.
[I would] just stick to the festival as much as possible. Because it's about the music for me, really. [I don't come] all the way here to go to trendy parties. There are some people who come here to go to parties. [The exception is when] it's an after-party and the festival has closed. Festivals are kind of magical places, and you need to soak as much of that up as possible.