The human heart by nature seeks after God. There is a spiritual vacuum in every man until it is filled by Christ.

A faith that can be destroyed by suffering is not faith.

Consider as sin any minute of life spent on something other than saving souls for eternity from this world doomed to destruction.

A man really believes not what he recites in his creed, but only the things he is ready to die for.

I have found truly jubilant Christians only in the Bible, in the Underground Church and in prison.

Not all of us are called to die a martyr’s death, but all of us are called to have the same spirit of self-sacrifice and love to the very end as these martyrs had.

A flower, if you bruise it under your feet, rewards you by giving you its perfume.

God will judge us not according to how much we endured, but how much we could love

God is the Truth. The Bible is the truth about the Truth. Theology is the truth about the truth about the Truth.

If a Christian really believed that his neighbor will be tortured in all eternity in Hell, he should try day and night to persuade him to repent and believe. How sad that this doesn't happen.

I have decided to denounce communism, though I love the Communists. I don't find it to be right to preach the gospel without denouncing communism.

But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.

Gorgeous hair is the best revenge.

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

...the spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.

Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me.

Of course there's objective truth, but when we're looking at people's accounts of it, it seems the real truth lies in the accretion of all these different versions.

Donald Trump has to be Donald Trump. And the country will organize itself around who he is.

Journeys bring power and love back into you. If you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They are like shafts of light, always changing, and you change when you explore them.

Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin That Time cannot take Nor a thief purloin- O better than the minting Of a gold-crowned king Is the safe-kept memory Of a lovely thing.

Sometimes I feel an impingement of something I went through in another lifetime. But I like to concentrate on the absolute present. That's why I love my animals. They live in the present.