Ministers should be stars to give light, not clouds to obscure. In some cases the text is as clear as a mirror, till the preacher's breath bedims it. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"Sometimes,indeed, the Lord purposely leaves his children, withdraws the divine inflowings of his grace, and permits them to begin to sink, in order that they may understand that faith is not their own work.

(Sermon, "Mr. fearing comforted")"

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

I would do many things to please my friends, but to go to hell to please them is more than I would venture. It may be very well to do this and that for good fellowship, but it will never do to lose the friendship of God in order to keep on good terms with men.