Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.

The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.

Of all creatures in this visible world, light is the most glorious; of all light, the light of the sun without compare excels the rest.

In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.

Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.

Great comforts do, indeed, bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree of it; the weak child is oftener in the lap than the strong one.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.

Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill.

It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.

Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.

The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.

Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.

Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.

The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.

We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.

The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.

Men are what they see and judge; though some do not fill up their light, yet none go beyond it.

Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death.

The chains of love are stronger than the chains of fear.

Great comforts do indeed bear witness to the truth of thy grace but not to the degree of it the weak child is oftener in the lap than the strong one.

He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.

It's not just the right-wing crazies who oppose health reform. In addition, there are many sane Americans who worry about committing a trillion dollars to it.

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

I was one of those kids who never wanted to be anything but a novelist. And I don't know a lot of people who truly live the life that they dreamed of.

It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.

Modernity signifies the transitory the fugitive the contingent the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

When people are uncomfortable - and many people are when they have to negotiate - they start rambling as a way to fill the vacuum of silence. Some of the strongest negotiators I know just sit back and listen. The less they engage, the more likely the other person is to slip up and offer information they otherwise would have kept guarded.

If it happens, I'll be proud, and it would be a dream come true, though I doubt I ever thought I'd be a Hall of Famer when I started. It wasn't until late in my career that people started to mention it, and you start thinking about it a little bit.

Strategy is choosing to perform activities differently, or to perform distinctly different activities than rivals.

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

I don't want to just go to the playoffs, I don't want to go to the playoffs and win the first round, second round, and not win the whole thing because it's bittersweet.

Had we known that the price that we would have to pay for this success, we never would have wanted it.

When I got with Nina Greenberg, I had been running for a few months already without a trainer. But then she gave me a program and guided me through my runs, showing me how to take care of myself and letting me know I should ice my legs and stretch - stuff I hadn't been doing.

'Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta' is a kind of expansion of chamber music.

I'm such an admirer, I am an admirer of villains, especially working with so many great ones.

By all means, let's have free trade and no trade barriers and a common market. But where did it all suddenly become about our own economic and political destiny being surrendered to Brussels with agendas that arguably have very little to do with the interests of the British people and British voters?