Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men -- and fewer laws.

There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs.

We cannot use our thoughts and feelings as a standard: only God’s Word is the test.

In any age, our problems are a result of sin, and the solution is faith and obedience.

The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.

To be fearless in the Lord does not require us to be great and powerful men, but only to believe in the great and powerful God.

Our basic problem today is that we have two religions in conflict, humanism and Christianity, each with its own morality and the laws of that morality.

It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society

The result of becoming tolerant towards sin is that we become intolerant towards God and His Word.

History has never been dominated by majorities, but only by dedicated minorities who stand unconditionally on their faith.

Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy.

How can I stand before you in silent symbols with open palms?

Ranking where people stand in your life and who they are to you helps you determine who you value the most and therefore where best to spend your time.

It takes more courage to disturb the neighborhood than it takes to disturb the universe. And the price is often higher.

You need feeling, emotion, to create. You can't create out of indifference.

The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.

Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.

I'm not crazy about being out of control, and I get emotional when things are unclean. When things are out of order. When things are messy. Because I lived in a mess as a child.

I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

The planet is full and we will be rubbing shoulders forever. There is nowhere else to go.