For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.

Custom without truth is error grown old.

Where our work is, there let our joy be.

A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain

Nonetheless, we experience a sense of freedom when we feel that we have the ability to make choices and satisfy our primal instincts.

If the Bible is called the Good Book, it's not because its people are. Blood flows as freely through the stories as the ink through the quills that penned them.

I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano.

Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.

Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.

People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.

He's become like that briefcase in the ground-full of gems yet void of light, so nothing sparkles, nothing shines.

The greatest gift we give to someone who loves us is simply to be happy.

Love of one's country recognizes no frontiers... of other countries.

In some ways, TV is more regimented, but there is a level of professionalism that's very high, among the people that work in television.