Christianity is not a do-it-yourself thing.

We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.

Even our tears of repentance need to be washed in the blood of the Lamb.

But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like Himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God.

It is not the importance of the thing, but the majesty of the Lawgiver, that is to be the standard of obedience.~Andrew Bonar~

We become so accustomed to our sins we sometimes lapse into a state of peaceful coexistence with them, but God never ceases to hate them.

The Holy Spirit opens the inner recesses of our hearts and enables us to see the moral cesspools hidden there.

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive

Everything with a beginning has an ending. Any magic that can be done, can be undone. Anything you can make, can be unmade.

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.

After I am dead I would like people to say: 'Beuys understood the historical situation. He altered the course of events'. I hope in the right direction.

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.

Honestly, I think if I had to stop acting I'd be like, 'Well, I guess I have to go live in the mountains now.' I'd probably be a good assistant.

Dad's going steady with a pig in the barn.

The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.