Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.
No one ever lost out by excessive devotion to Christ.
God is looking for broken men who have judged themselves in the light of the cross of Christ. When He wants anything done, He takes up men who have come to the end of themselves, whose confidence is not in themselves, but in God.
All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation.
The Christian life is never static. One must either grow in grace, or there will be backsliding and deterioration.
We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.
When the Lord Jesus Christ became my surety. . . He went to Calvary's cross, and all my guilt was charged against Him. He settled for everything, and then He cried, 'It is finished. ' And on the basis of that finished work, God can freely forgive, and justify completely, every poor sinner who trusts in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Tell me of a right wing-induced hysteria of the last 50 years
You should never ever ever have somebody else who is the foundation of your life. You need to be the foundation of your own sh*t.
What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?
I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.