Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.

Certainly, no revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity.

Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.

Who will reach heaven? I do not know, but I am certain that no one will be there who does not feel at home.

Christianity alone inspires and guides progress; for the progress of man is movement toward God. and movement toward God wili ensure a gradual unfolding of all that exalts and adorns man.

All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.

Whatever capacities there may be for enjoyment or for suffering in this strange being of ours, and God only knows what they are, they will be drawn out wholly in accordance with character.

Faith then, in its relation to salvation, is that confidence by which we accept it as a free gift from the Saviour, and is the only possible way in which the gift of God could be appropriated.

[T]he world we live in is governed by the most revolting bunch of crooks ever to defile the soil of this planet... [You] must never take them seriously, which is exactly what they want.

How now! Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." Lady Macbeth

I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.

If you choose to live outside the law, you must obey the law more stringently than anyone.

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

When you're going with a huge dramatic disaster film, try to keep the narrative as simple as possible.

The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them..and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.

I think the metric by which television is considered liberal is literally based on the metric of liberalism in each person's soul. Peoples' senses of humor tend to go about as far as their ideology.

Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school.

I like whomever to come to my shows. I want people who want to see me to come see me. I don't want to force people. I don't want it to feel like a job!