Be patient with yourself even when you make mistakes.
Because I know that I am not my own master, I offer my heart as a true sacrifice to the Lord.
When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it. . We must adore its loftiness rather than investigate it, so that we do not remain overwhelmed by so great a splendor.
Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve
Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.
Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.
Because we are living in a culture increasingly dominated by fear where many feel blocked.
My mother wanted me to learn how to read music. She'd given fiddles to my two older brothers, but they'd rebelled. I came along and my father said, "Oh, let Peter enjoy himself. " What she did was leave musical instruments all around the house. Whistles, marimbas, squeeze boxes, a piano and organ. By age six or seven, I could bang out a simple tune on almost anything. I developed a good ear, so I didn't learn to read music until I taught myself at age eighteen, 'cause I was hearing so many good songs I couldn't possibly remember them all.