And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make the Israelites believe that Jesus was their promised Messiah.

Just as a son, to be a son of man, must be of the same nature and spirit of his father; so with the sons of God, and so it will be with all who are born of the spirit of God.

What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts.

The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.

O that our hearts were enlarged in love to God, that we might turn inward, to the blessed comforter, that the blessed Jesus said the Father would send.

But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be natural, and we shall choose it from time to time.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

To the Jews only, and not to the Gentiles, was a Saviour promised.

You are never tempted by a devil without you, but by a devil within you.

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Where ignorance prevails, there an opportunity exists but the possessor of ignorance shall always be ignorant of opportunities

evidence without ideas is more valuable than ideas without evidence.

If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.

One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.

Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.

My object when writing prose is to write as clearly as possible. I think I know what I'm saying in prose, and I want others to understand it and to be able to restate it.

The temptation to use mathematics is irresistible for economists. It appears to convey the appropriate air of scientific authority and precision to economists' musings.

Without knowledge and a workable plan, you are gambling, with little or no chance of success.

I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.