I have decided to denounce communism, though I love the Communists. I don't find it to be right to preach the gospel without denouncing communism.

A faith that can be destroyed by suffering is not faith.

Consider as sin any minute of life spent on something other than saving souls for eternity from this world doomed to destruction.

A man really believes not what he recites in his creed, but only the things he is ready to die for.

I have found truly jubilant Christians only in the Bible, in the Underground Church and in prison.

Not all of us are called to die a martyr’s death, but all of us are called to have the same spirit of self-sacrifice and love to the very end as these martyrs had.

A flower, if you bruise it under your feet, rewards you by giving you its perfume.

God will judge us not according to how much we endured, but how much we could love

The human heart by nature seeks after God. There is a spiritual vacuum in every man until it is filled by Christ.

God is the Truth. The Bible is the truth about the Truth. Theology is the truth about the truth about the Truth.

If a Christian really believed that his neighbor will be tortured in all eternity in Hell, he should try day and night to persuade him to repent and believe. How sad that this doesn't happen.

It meant he was a cat and he'd do whatever he pleased, when he pleased, and if I didn't like it, that was just to bad.

I was just cleaning up my own mess, Baz. Like, no one would call you a hero for cleaning up your own vomit.

I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus.

All creation is a mine, and every man a miner.

Jesus, take the wheel Take it from my hands 'Cause I can't do this on my own I'm letting go So give me one more chance To save me from this road I'm on Jesus, take the wheel

To write good SF today...you must push further and harder, reach deeper into your own mind until you break through into the strange and terrible country wherein live your own dreams.

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and sometimes like dancing and wordless music.

The world of immediate experience the world in which we find ourselves living must be comprehended, transformed, even subverted in order to become that which it really is.

Owen is the most Hitchcockian preschooler I ever met. He's three. He knows maybe ninety word and one of them is 'crypt'?

I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.