“If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.”

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.

A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.

Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.

It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.

I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.

By Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.

God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.

Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.

When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.

Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.

Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.

Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.

A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.

My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play there’s no problem because the music is part of the whole thing. To be a musician is really something. It goes very, very deep. My music is the spiritual expression of what I am – my faith, my knowledge, my being.

I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way

I was always laughing in church.

The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.

Although the Nasser revolution of 1952 was secular, the culture remained deeply religious – but it was a faith of moderation and tolerance.

All people hope Islam helps everything in life.

My father was a very religious person. And he prayed five times a day. And he did that throughout his relationship with Ataturk.

Already, Islamic State has broad support in many cities there. And when they get there, it will once again come as a great surprise to everybody.