Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.

Custom without truth is error grown old.

Where our work is, there let our joy be.

A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

I believe that traditional religious belief and scientific knowledge depict the universe in radically different ways. At the bedrock they are incompatible and mutually exclusive.

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

Education has always been very important to me.

The definition of woman's work is shitwork.

Kindness holds the key to the secret of our own transformation and, in the process, of the transformation of the world.

A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather.

Of course I didn't have a boyfriend then. I didn't even have a camp boyfriend then [at age of 13].

NATO is an alliance, so all parts of the alliance have to be capable.

Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

I played music practically my entire life. But the first time I ever really played music was with John and Robby and Jim That's where it happened. it was an epiphany, a moment of profound clarity