We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience.

An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony.

God is the God of the present as well as of the future...even here on earth, He reigneth, dispensing good and evil.

So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self.

Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Philosophy is a goddess, whose head indeed is in heaven, but whose feet are upon earth; she attempts more than she accomplishes, and promises more than she performs.

When I reap the rewards, I don't even know I'm reaping them.

America is a consumer culture, and when we change what we buy - and how we buy it - we'll change who we are.

By seeing differently, we do differently

One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.

No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.

If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.

Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.

You have to take Bible prophecy literally, just like everything else in the Bible.