First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it.

Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.

God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.

Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.

A weak faith can lay hold on a strong Christ.

Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.

Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages.

The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.

Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.

How many souls have been blown into hell with the wind of popular applause?

A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.

The more grateful you are, the more you attract things to be grateful for.

Basic research is to work at the very edge, the very border of, of knowledge, and move that border forward. You look and look for new secrets, and you don't know where it's going to lead you.

I'm convinced part of the reason I got signed is because of who I am, and it makes me sad.

The path to joy leads through despair.

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

Better to leave dreams behind and go forward with purpose.

I think we'll always miss our parents. But I think we can miss them without being miserable all the time. After all, they wouldn't want us to be miserable.

Images of the world are Renormalization Group fixed points.

[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.

If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions.