All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.

All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.

The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.

In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.

After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes.

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.

The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.

I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.

The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace.

Leanness of body and soul may go together.

Christs blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin sick souls.

Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.

Without consistency there is no moral strength.

The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word.

In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

Be killing sin or it will be killing you.

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.

Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.

Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space.

The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.

To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit.

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.

As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

I was part of it, and I am still part of it today in terms of what it means to a whole new generation of people who are interested in the enduring energy, achievements, spirit and creativity that exemplified our era.

I get excited about what the Holy Spirit is doing now through all the people he is refining and raising up all over this planet. I love connections and relationship and networking but it must be led by the Spirit.

In the report made on behalf of the C.G.T. we affirmed that the Peace Treaty should, in accordance with the spirit of workers' organizations, lay the first foundations of the United States of Europe.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.

It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit.

If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.