Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.
Good education is not regeneration. Education may chain up men's lusts, but cannot change their hearts.
The natural man cannot but resist the Lord's offering to help him; yet that resistance is infallibly overcome in the elect, by converting grace.
God shall not pity them but laugh at their calamity. The righteous company in heaven shall rejoice in the execution of God's judgment, and shall sing while the smoke riseth up for ever.
God will hold sinners with one hand over the pit of hell, while He torments them with the other.
For the turning away of the simple, shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
As the corruption of our nature shews the absolute necessity of regeneration, so the absolute necessity of regeneration plainly proves the corruption of our nature; for why should a man need a second birth, if his nature were not quite marred in the first birth?
I think we all do have a guardian angel. I believe they work through us all the time, when we are thoughtful and good and kind to each other.
I'm not defined by where I came from.
I was educated in London at Central Saint Martins and had this whole thing about getting together with a lot of international students. Twenty-three languages were spoken during our lunch breaks! The school was very open minded, you could do whatever you wanted. Some people loved that freedom, others got lost. Gareth Pugh was a classmate, and so was Peter Jensen.
No American is prepared to attend his own funeral without the services of highly skilled cosmeticians. Part of the American dream, after all, is to live long and die young.