Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.
When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.
When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it. . We must adore its loftiness rather than investigate it, so that we do not remain overwhelmed by so great a splendor.
Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve
Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.
Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
"I like you," he said. He made it sound as if she was bound to disagree with him. She nodded. His face said he was telling her something very important. He said, "I mean it. Whatever happens, you have to believe that. "
When you look at the current state of reality TV, at least on the mainstream level, the shows that tend to be more successful have been around for a while. It's difficult today to show the audience something they haven't seen before, and I think that's what tends to be the secret to any great, big reality hit.
In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not.
Normative ethics, pursued as a free, systematic, and critical attempt to find moral truth, regardless of religious and other authorities, is a rather new adventure. Let's wait and see what will happen!