A low view of law always produces legalism; a high view of law makes a person a seeker after grace.

According to Christian belief, man exists for the sake of God; according to the liberal church, in practice if not in theory, God exists for the sake of man.

God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so are the nations of the modern world.

It is impossible to be a true soldier of Jesus Christ and not fight.

The more we know of God, the more unreservedly we will trust him; the greater our progress in theology, the simpler and more child-like will be our faith

Modern culture is a mighty force. It is either subservient to the gospel or else it is the deadliest enemy of the gospel

Christianity is not engrossed by this transitory world, but measures all things by the thought of eternity.

The Gospel does not abrogate God's law, but it makes men love it with all of their hearts.

Christ died"--that is history; "Christ died for our sins"--that is doctrine. Without these two elements, joined in an absolutely indissoluble union, there is no Christianity.

What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.

If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else.

A dream is like a first draft. No one will ever see it but you.

Every man over 40 should have a PSA test each year.

New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.

The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life.

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.

I do believe that the analogy for bisexuality is a multicultural, multi-ethnic, multiracial world view. Bisexuality follows from such a perspective and leads to it, as well.

My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.

If the soul would know the merit which one acquires in temptations suffered in patience and conquered, it would be tempted to say: "Lord, send me temptations."

My most earnest wish is to see the republican element of popular control pushed to the maximum of its practicable exercise. I shall then believe that our government may be pure and perpetual.