I really have a problem with any kind of drug, I always have.
What kind of wonderful God is this who reaches down into the lives of people, picks them up, grants them faith, and changes them!
Let us remember the loving-kindness of the Lord and rehearse His deeds of grace. Let us open the volume of recollection, which is so richly illuminated with memories of His mercy, and we will soon be happy.
I only need a mirror to see a sinner.
When my children hear godliness out of my mouth and they see wickedness in my life, then I point them to heaven and I lead them to hell.
To expose our minds constantly to ungodly thinking is a great danger.
Singleness and marriage are both evidences of God’s grace that are to be experienced and sustained purely by the strength which God supplies.
When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see the sky and raise his high eyes to the stars.
We were meant to do more than make sure that all of our needs are fulfilled and all our desires are satisfied. We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one.
Just because they didn’t shoot you all in the head doesn’t mean their intentions were somehow honorable. Why do you think they came here? Just to run through your hallways, knock you conscious, and leave?
People will then often say, 'But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness and muddle that I usually edge out of the conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it turns out that I've been wrong all along, and there is in fact a god, and if it further turned out that this kind of legalistic, cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back, Clintonian hair-splitting impressed him, then I think I would choose not to worship him anyway. )