Protecting the city is my job, which doesn't translate into hatred. This is war, and in most wars, professional soldiers don't hate the enemy. Hatred can blind you in ways that mar your judgment.

Only the inner vision of God, only the God-blindedness of unreservedly dedicated souls, only the utterly humble ones can bow and break the raging pride of a power-mad world.

Listening to the eternal involves a silence within us.

For God Himself works in our souls, in the deepest depths, taking increasing control as we are progressively willing to be prepared for His wonder.

The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.

Come, ye saints, look here and wonder, See the place where Jesus lay; He has burst His bands asunder; He has borne our sins away; Joyful tidings, Yes, the Lord has risen to-day.

I think one of the biggest scams in law enforcement is the monitor.

Create an atmosphere in which anything is possible.

We don't have the flexibility of changing the bid amount. We can go through the whole process and someone else could beat us by giving more.

Now is the dwelling place of God himself.

A broad base of knowledge is critically important to our ability to investigate terrorism.

Some people get what they want because they grab the power and swing it, and some people don’t.

Q. But it seems to me there are circumstances that simply induce one to have negative emo

My mother is very emotional as well, but my dad is more of the guts of the family. He was the main preacher, so he kind of had this little Pentecostal flair, but they are born-again.

It is easy to despise what you cannot get

Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits... Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum.

Untimely conduct is the discord of manners.

You can't just sit around in leopard-print slippers and drink champagne all day and think everything's gonna work out somehow.

I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue.