“Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.”

The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.

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 surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.

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.

The burning desire in your heart is your compass.

A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.

Meditation does not mean just sitting quietly for five or ten minutes. It requires conscious effort. The mind has to be made calm and quiet; at the same time, it has to be vigilant so as not to allow any distracting thoughts or desires to enter.

Even now I know it: yes, all my hopes will be fulfilled… yes… the Lord will work wonders for me which will surpass infinitely my immeasurable desires.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

To be loved to madness–such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.

I’ll hand deliver your pressure whenever you desire my touch