All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.

Certainly, no revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity.

Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.

Who will reach heaven? I do not know, but I am certain that no one will be there who does not feel at home.

Christianity alone inspires and guides progress; for the progress of man is movement toward God. and movement toward God wili ensure a gradual unfolding of all that exalts and adorns man.

Whatever capacities there may be for enjoyment or for suffering in this strange being of ours, and God only knows what they are, they will be drawn out wholly in accordance with character.

Faith then, in its relation to salvation, is that confidence by which we accept it as a free gift from the Saviour, and is the only possible way in which the gift of God could be appropriated.

Love is keeping the promise anyway.

It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire, and is deprived of the light of a heart ablaze.The day on which you arewithout passionate loveis the most wasted day of your life.

Yeah.You got me through

So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.

You can't give up on me. If you give up, then I'm going to break into a million pieces. I'm here. I'll give you everything I've got.

I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter.

It is a ludicrous statistic plucked out of the air and used to justify a quite appalling attack on many of the poorest people in this country.

Even small efforts to bring about a change in the social fabric eventually reap large fruits.

It is strange how a memory will grow into a wax figure, how the cherub grows suspiciously prettier as its frame darkens with age-strange, strange are the mishaps of memory.

Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.