Why should a person come to the cross? Why should a person embrace death? With Christ? Because it's the only way that God can get glory out of a human being!

Most Christians do not have fellowship with God; they have fellowship with each other about God.

The end of all being is the glory of God.

Does the Lord intend to make man happy? Sure... but it's a byproduct, not a prime product.

Is God an end or is He a means?

The liberal says the end of religion is to make man happy while he's alive. And the fundamentalist says the end of religion is to make man happy when he dies.

In your own mind-darkened, will-paralyzed, conscience-dulled soul, God can make the light penetrate and turn the darkness of your own life into day, if you will let Him.

It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.

Have you noticed that all you need to grow healthy, vigorous grass is a crack in your sidewalk? Having a baby is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the honesty of the story.

The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity.

Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.]

When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.

The Four Oaths: Never be late with respect to the way of the warrior; be useful to the lord; be respectful to your parents; get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of man.