Keeping the Sabbath day holy is much more than just physical rest. It involves spiritual renewal and worship.

You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching us, to see what in heaven's name we will do next.

We share in the spirit embodied in the Alcoholics Anonymous prayer, "Lord, give me the courage to change the things which can and ought to be changed, the serenity to accept the things which cannot be changed, and the wisdom to know the difference.

I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc.

Because of the Shewing I am not good but if I love God the better: and in as much as ye love God the better, it is more to you than to me.

The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book.

God finds nothing in man to turn His heart, but enough to turn his stomach.

We need alert listeners to give dignity to those stretches in our lives when we are not aware of participating in anything we think might be embraced by the kingdom of God.

Psalm 131 is a maintenance psalm. It is functional to the person of faith as pruning is functional to the gardener: it gets rid of that which looks good to those who don't know any better, and reduces the distance between our hearts and their roots in God.

Having and defending and celebrating the Bible instead of receiving, submitting to, and praying the Bible, masks an enormous amount of nonreading.

Prayer is what develops in us after we step out of the center and begin responding to the center, to Jesus.

What is worthy or unworthy on the Sabbath day will have to be judged by each of us by trying to be honest with the Lord. On the Sabbath day, we should do what we have to do and what we ought to do in an attitude of worshipfulness and then limit our other activities.