I do wash my hands in innocency, before God and the face of you, good Christian people this day.

The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.

Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord.

The highest earthly enjoyments are but a shadow of the joy I find in reading God's Word.

The works of God are great mysteries and may truly always be hidden from us, however it is not wrong to lead your own personal enquiry through your prayers to the Lord.

God and posterity will show me more favour

Lord, into thy hands I commend my spirit!

God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me.

Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart.

Conflicts have small beginnings.

I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches.

I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.

Could the situation be that we no longer believe in that particular place? Or maybe we were all promised Heaven in our lifetimes, and what we ended up with can't help but suffer in comparison.

All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.

Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.

The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.

I've certainly never helped anybody save the day, in any capacity. If anybody is going to understand making a few mistakes, it's me.

I love the shows that are in dingy little dark clubs, smoky, no production whatsoever.