It is a pity that we cannot persuade all ministers to be men, for it is hard to see how other was they can be truly men of God.

It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic.

A graceless pastor is a blind man elected to a professorship of optics.

If we do not touch the heart, we will soon weary the ear.

Because their example is powerful, they're somewhat responsible for the weaklings who copy them.

There will be no fear of your becoming lethargic if you are continually familiar with internal realities.

Every unearnest minister is an unfaithful one.

We may rifle the treasures of antiquity and make the heathen contribute to the gospel even as Hiram of Tyre served under Solomon's direction for the building of the Temple.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are as easy as an old shoe are generally of as lttle worth .

Heart language is logic set on fire.

Cast the burden of the present along with the sin of the past and the fear of the future upon the Lord.

She can't help it, ' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.

Sometimes life-changing moments slip by unnoticed, their significance only becoming apparent in the light of subsequent events.

Each man must make is own sacred journey.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.

I don't mind a crowd's not laughing; it's the groans that slow down the show.

I call to the spirits of other lands to make fecund my existence

I don't know if it's really important, or intelligent even, when people say to me I'm a white Spike Lee, because they said to Spike Lee you're a black Woody Allen.

My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.

You proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because you take it for granted that nobody's been living for them, not even for a single hour.