“In everything give thanks”

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

Bad company ruins good morals.

He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places . . . He destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace that he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart.

Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

We were by nature children of wrath, even as others.

The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy, for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.

Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.

The End of Laissez-Faire (1926) might, so far as it goes, serve as a useful introduction to fascist economics. There is scarcely anything to object to in it and there is much to applaud.

The opening-night audience is mostly friends of the cast and backers of the show, and they cometo applaud their money.

I mix and match, from top to bottom.

Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?

Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.