“The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.”

Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God’s saving grace in Christ Jesus.

When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

When the Bible speaks, God speaks.

Satan is an astute theologian.

How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.

Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.

Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.

No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.

A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.

Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.

The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.

Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve.

We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.

The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act.

The great earthquake shall be in the month of May; Saturn, Capricorn, Jupiter, Mercury in Taurus; Venus, also Cancer, Mars in zero.

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.

There will be a great loss of learning before the moon’s full cycle is completed. Fire and floods will be fomented by ignorant rulers; much time will go by before it is rectified.

The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.

On the fields of Media, of Arabia, and of Armenia, two great armies will assemble thrice. The host near the bank of the Araxes, they will fall in the land of the great Suleiman.

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

I believe in God. When everything collapses, we grip the last hold, we look from the secure haven how the godless society of the old, holy Europe falls apart. May the game begin.

To the Spains will come a very powerful king, by land and sea subjugating the South; This will cause harm, lowering again the crescent, clipping the wings of those of Friday.