Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder.
There is no remedy, but you must either turn or burn.
For a soul to come to Jesus, is the grandest event in its history.
Two sorts of peace are more to be dreaded than all the troubles in the world — peace with sin, and peace in sin.
Conversion is a work above man's power. . . Never think you can convert yourself. If ever you would be savingly converted, you must despair of doing it in your own strength. It is a resurrection from the dead, a new creation, a work of absolute omnipotence. . . This is a supernatural work.
It is one thing to have sin alarmed only by convictions, and another to have it crucified by converting grace. Many, because they have been troubled in conscience for their sins, think well of their case, miserably mistaking conviction for conversion.
O miserable man, what a deformed monster has sin made you! God made you "little lower than the angels"; sin has made you little better than the devils
Our hearts lie. Something can 'feel' right and be completely wrong.
The need for a quick, satisfactory copying machine that could be used right in the office seemed very apparent to me-there seemed such a crying need for it-such a desirable thing if it could be obtained. So I set out to think of how one could be made.
No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake. Loose ends, things unrelated, shifts, nightmare journeys, cities arrived at and left, meetings, desertions, betrayals, all manner of unions, adulteries, triumphs, defeats…these are the facts.
All I need is some cool bud and some tasty hanging change-ups, and I'm fine!