Faith then, in its relation to salvation, is that confidence by which we accept it as a free gift from the Saviour, and is the only possible way in which the gift of God could be appropriated.

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.

Certainly, no revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity.

Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.

Who will reach heaven? I do not know, but I am certain that no one will be there who does not feel at home.

Christianity alone inspires and guides progress; for the progress of man is movement toward God. and movement toward God wili ensure a gradual unfolding of all that exalts and adorns man.

All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.

Whatever capacities there may be for enjoyment or for suffering in this strange being of ours, and God only knows what they are, they will be drawn out wholly in accordance with character.

One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.

Maybe the best way for you to get us to summon our better selves is for you to show us yours.

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

You didn't have to wash it as often and it hid the blood stains better!

Everyone steals. My favorite movie is Love Don't Cost a Thing with Nick Cannon. Which is based on Can't Buy Me Love, which is based on Kramer vs. Kramer, or something, which I think was Shakespeare.

I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that.

I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.

Forgiveness is choosing to see your offender with different eyes.

A resourceful person will always make opportunity fit his or her needs.

I love talking about food, and bringing people together to enjoy it.