A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.

Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he can be, but he has no holiness, that is, no supreme love of God

Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.

There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline.

Frogs are smart - they eat what bugs them.

They say that travelling broadens your mind, but first you must have a mind.

Clear statement is argument.

The piecemeal criticism which, like the fly, scans only the edge of a plinth in the great edifice upon which it crawls, disappears under a criticism that is all-comprehending and all-surveying.

It's easy to loveBut hard to forgive

I worked hard to meet his eyes, even though they were the kind of pretty that’s hard to look at..

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

I had build up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth.

People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.

My prayer today is that God would make me an extraordinary Christian.

What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?

We have a right to know the truth; no right to ask anything else from God, but the right to know that.

In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.

There's a stability and growth pact which was agreed for the eleven countries which tries to limit the size of budget deficits among the eleven countries.