All field agents have some cowboy in them – even the ones from New York.
Christ does not choose you because you are good, but to make you good.
A curse lies upon those that, when the truth suffers, have not a word to defend it.
It is atheism to pray and not wait on hope.
See a flame in a spark, a tree in a seed. See great things in little beginnings.
We cannot say this or that trouble will not befall, yet we may, by the help of the Spirit, say, Nothing that does befall will make me do that which is unworthy of a Christian.
If believers decay in their first love, or in some other grace, yet another grace may grow and increase, such as humility, their brokenheartedness; they sometimes seem not to grow in the branches when they may grow at the root; upon a check grace breaks out more; as we say, after a hard winter there usually follows a glorious spring.
The sign work of the Orient it runneth up and down; The Talmud stalks from right to left, a rabbi in a gown; The Roman rolls from left to right from Maytime unto May; But the gods shake up their symbols in an absent-minded way. Their language runs to circles like the language of the eyes, Emphasised by strange dilations with little panting sighs.
The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule.
Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.
Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.