Pray, always pray; when sickness wastes thy frame, Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name.

The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity.

An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky.

You never realize how much you value something until you are faced with the prospect of losing it.

A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been.

If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.

The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.

Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.

God's Word is true whether we believe it or not. Human unbelief cannot alter the character of God.

Jesus Christ never thinks about what we have been! He always thinks about what we are going to be.

If I am to wholly follow the Lord Jesus Christ, I must forsake everything that is contrary to Him.

God loves us for ourselves. He values our love more than he values galaxies of new created worlds.

God loves you not because you are worthy, but because He is God and you are a fixture in His mind.

God created our souls to be satisfied only with the divine everlastingness of the Word made flesh.

The Christian is strong or weak depending upon how closely he has cultivated the knowledge of God.

When we are enjoying the conscious presence of God, we are fulfilling the tenets of our salvation.

Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.

Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.

Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.

If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not.

It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people's lives present themselves.

Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos

Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

To know is to exist; to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.

What's really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

In addition to all its rich offerings to the body and its five senses, gardening engages the mind.

The distance between Evil and Good is a vast expanse in which many can exist without being either.

When you see the divinity in others, you are Divine. When you see ego in others, you are egoistic.

Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.

Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.

America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul.

The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.

I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.

Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.

Growth has failed on its own terms. You can't have infinite growth in a world of finite resources.

The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement.

...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.

I was not called to be a preacher. I am a speaker who is a Christian. I'm not a Christian speaker.

I couldn't help what I'd done before I learned it was wrong. I could only do better in the future.

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