It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
You must take a house beside the Physician. It will be a miracle if ye be the first sick that Christ hath put away uncured.
They lose nothing who gain Christ.
I urge you a nearer communion with Christ, and a growing communion. There are curtains to be opened in Christ that we have never seen before. . . Therefore dig deep, and sweat, and labor. Take pains for Him, and set aside as much time as you can in each day for Him.
Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea.
Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.
O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without Thee, it would be hell; and if I could be in hell, and have Thee still, it would be heaven to me, for Thou are all the heaven I want.
So we draw lines around our property, our counties, our cities, our states, our countries. And, boy, do we act as if those lines are important. I mean, we go to war. We will kill and die to protect those boundaries. Nature couldn't give two hoots about our national boundaries.
I could see how you could do extreme things for the person you loved. Adam One said that when you loved a person, that love might not always get returned the way you wanted, but it was a good thing anyway because love went out all around you like an energy wave, and a creature you didn't know would be helped by it.
A lot of kids are moving to Baltimore, because we have a great music scene and we've got edge. Come on down, we've got scary edge. But great edge - it's still a city you can be a bohemian in.
Today, I can report that, as promised, the rest of our troops in Iraq will come home by the end of the year.