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.

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

But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.

One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure.

I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.

It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I thank god every day for the gifts that he has given me and for my daughter and to be able to watch her grow and be a part of her joys and her excitement and what she wants to do in life.

There were no gifts. Everything is properly accounted for. I provided testimony and evidence to the committee... This was all stuff that was previously known.

God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.

I want to give as many Canadians the opportunity to be successful and if we can use their athletic gifts to get them a free degree or a free diploma across the border then I guess I'm doing my job.

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.

To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.

Gifts make slaves.

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.

It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.

Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.

No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.

Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity.

The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.