Never have I greater reason for suspicion that when I am particularly pleased with myself, my faith, my progress, and my alms.

God has given you your child, that the sight of him, from time to time, might remind you of His goodness, and induce you to praise Him with filial reverence.

It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.

My God, help me always resolutely to strive, and, through life and death, to force my way unto Thee.

O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.

My God, give me neither poverty nor riches; but whatsoever it may be Thy will to give, give me with it a heart which knows humbly to acquiesce in what is Thy will.

The greatest art in life is to believe in Christ. That art is learned only in the Holy Spirit's school.

The whole of Christianity is comprised in three things--to believe, to love, and to obey Jesus. These are things, however, which we must be learning all our life.

Everybody must be focused on cultivating their own territory

Any real Bob Dylan fan would sleep with Jonah Lehrer.

When you're pro-life, you need to be pro-life for the whole life.

I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.

You're all I need and maybe some faith would do me good.

There are two choices available in duality - one side or the other side. Everyting is formed from that.

Images are really powerful. People fall in love with images, and as a way of falling in love with someone because they're like an image.

The notion of anarchy ...means that once industrial functions have taken over from political functions, then business transactions and exchange alone produce the social order.

Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish. Gotta be who you are in this world, no matter what.

The first years of a child's life are too important for a child's future - their development, earnings, behavior, and health - for anyone to ignore.