There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.

There's a spiritual complement to any attempt at transposing a commitment to humanity through music or art.

Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which case he was never alive, it being unlikely that he died of old age.

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.