If everything proceeded according to their wishes, they would not understand what it means to follow God.

When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.

Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.

I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.

Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.

When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.

Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve

We are candles, I remember thinking, and the wind is rising.

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

I've got a clear line between work and real life.

Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.

When I performed the songs in front of an audience at the end of each project and I knew the storytellers were in the crowd listening, that was hard.

I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of wonder that they presume to write my name.

At an everyday level I would reckon myself more than fortunate.

The only two things in life that make it worth livin' / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women