“John Calvin comments on today’s passage: God is only rightly served when his law is obeyed. It is not left to every man to frame a system of religion according to his own judgment, but the standard of godliness is to be taken from the Word of God.”

Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

Darwinism is the story of humanity’s liberation from the delusion that its destiny is controlled by a power higher than itself.

The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your love, O Lord, endures forever – do not abandon the works of your hands.

The simplest way to lose your soul is to go with the flow because the flow is naturally down. Only live fish can swim against the current. Dead ones just conform to it.

Buddhists say that a fixed smile, however false, lights up the soul.

Into the air, and what seemed corporal Melted as breath into the wind. Would they had stayed.

Racing over the hills in the country the wind blew vast rings of shadow that dwindled again to green.

Take caution when declaring war because you may believe it will be easy, but war will always end in despair.

Cold is the counsel of women.

Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.

The Potters smiled and waved at Harry and he stared hungrily back at them, his hands pressed flat against the glass as though he was hoping to fall right through it and reach them. He had a powerful kind of ache inside him, half joy, half terrible sadness.

The trilogy of “Before Sunrise”, “Before Sunset” and last-year’s “Before Midnight” returns periodically to.

In a way, it’s nice to know there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong.

People move on after a breakup – sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. The thing you have to remember is that it was over for him before he ended it, so he had a head start on the process of getting over it.

They say you’re not punished for your sins, you’re punished by them.

The bottom line for Republicans is this: The United States can have an open door without having open borders, but we cannot preserve the country we love by slamming that door in the faces of those who most aspire to join our nation.

To make the mind obey you is a spiritual discipline.

I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.

Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.

Complete happiness lies in obedience to Allāh, and anguish is found in disobedience to Him and opposition against Him.

Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known.

Implicit and instantaneous obedience from the child to the parent, not only for the peace of the home, but for the highest good of the child.