As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low.

No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us.

The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too much, and God too little.

The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated.

What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!

Suppose that by revenge you might destroy one enemy; yet, by exercising the Christian's temper you might conquer three‌–‌your own lust, Satan's temptation, and your enemy's heart.

The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.

To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world.

Whatever be the ground of one's distress, it should drive him to, not from God.

They that know God will be humble. They that know themselves cannot be proud.

Words were only an approximation of meaning. The meaning escaped between the words, dissolved, disappeared, like fog fading away between iron bars.

After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own.

Seeing through glamour is easy. It's people that are hard.

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.

But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.

We live in the village. We have a summer place in Westport, Connecticut. We don't spend a lot on all kinds of things. But I have no complaints.

Fellini is a just a province kid. Rome exists for Fellini, not the other way around.

Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.