We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.
Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.
Faith has this excellency, that it is able to bring life out of death, light out of darkness. It has a kind of creating virtue.
When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come to suffer any cross: 'Oh, that what God does might please me!' I labour to do what pleases God, and I labour that what God does shall please me: here is a Christian indeed, who shall endeavour both these. It is but one side of a Christian to endeavour to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavour to be pleased with what God does, and so you will come to be a complete Christian when you can do both, and that is the first thing in the excellence of this grace of contentment.
Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.
It is a special part of the divine worship that we owe to God, to be content in a Christian way, as has been shown to you.
It is a woman's reason to say I will do such a thing because I will.
No one ever gets talker's block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say, and sits quietly, for days or weeks, until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all the craziness in his life has died down.
A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.
I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PCOEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people.
There's no way you could convince me today that Jesus is not real.