Prayerlessness is sin.

No nation has ever failed to prosper when its people put God first and their country second

All businesses, including gasoline stations and restaurants, should close ever Sunday... by force of legislative fiat through the duly elected officials of the people.

Regardless of the day or the hour; whether in seeming good times or bad, the Christian lives in the world for the good of the world and for the sake of the world.

God uses prayer to educate His people and to produce holiness of character in them.

We have to make peace with our limitations.

After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our ancestors, back and back until...

Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.

She felt like a creature born to reside on the bottom of the ocean floor, dark and flat and half-blind, slowly rising through the icy water to the glittering light above.

It's important to make a distinction between becoming more precise and becoming better.

All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.

God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them; then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did.

In New Zealand I think we often take ourselves too seriously, and being able to laugh at yourself is necessary in life without being too precious.

My criticisms are extremely mild in comparison to the tone of some of the questions fired in my direction.

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.