The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.
Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.
The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.
The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covere...
These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth of pine and cedar, which are the only species of timber to be seen.
Many of their lodges remained as perfect as when occupied. They were made of poles two or three inches in diameter, set up in circular form, and covered with cedar bark.
Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean.
It appears from Mr. Smith's account that there is no scarcity of buffalo as he penetrated the country.
On my passage thither, I discovered nothing remarkable in the features of the country.
The Yellowstone river is a beautiful river to navigate.
False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.
I don't think you need to go looking for the enemy. He's going to look for you.
It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.
My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now.
I never thought of myself as handsome.
I never thought I was particularly talented, and to be honest with you, I still don't.
I started running away when I was five years old. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized what I really wanted was somebody to come after me when I was running away.
I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to be accepted.
I've always been pretty tough in that way, where if you tell me I can't do something, I will prove you wrong.
