If the soul be pure, then shall she obtain favor and rejoice in the latter day; but if she hath been defiled, then shall she wander for a time in pain and despair.

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

Measures are an innovation that changed a world of innocent and noble simplicity into one forever filled with dishonesty.

All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of the Deity housed in our bodies

They smiled in their pains and laughed to scorn those who inflicted torments on them, resigned up their souls with great alacrity, expecting to receive them again.

The virtuous shall have the power to revive and live again. All pure and holy spirits live on in heavenly places, and in course of time they are again sent down to inhabit righteous bodies

Sabbath on Saturday in favor of The Lord's Day (Sunday). (Mag 9.1), rejected Judaizing (Mag 10.3), first use of term Christianity (Mag 10).

To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.

Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.

I'm playing with fire, with something I don't understand.

In the corporeal world, international law is whatever the United States and Great Britain say it is.

From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how tortuous it can be to be in possession of a unique voice.

Uh - do you want to do it outside? "Frequently. Oh, you meant the wedding. That, too.

One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.

The best road to correct reasoning is by physical science; the way to trace effects to causes is through physical science; the only corrective, therefore, of superstition is physical science.

Only in Christ are all things in communion. He is the point of convergence of all hearts and beings and therefore the bridge and the shortest way from each to each.

I'm still an English professor at Rice University here in Houston. They've been very generous in letting me on a very long leash to just work on 'The Passage' and its sequels.

I was working in customer service and had a verbally abusive boss. One day, I decided to quit and pursue my acting passion with everything I had. One week after quitting, I booked One Life to Live.

We create the government that screws you, and then you're supposed to thank us for protecting you from it.