God has given me authority in heaven and on earth, but my writ does not extend to hell. You will just have to put up with it.

There is no redemption from hell.

We . . . exercise on earth the power of our Lord and seek with all our might to bring those sheep of His flock who are outside into the fold committed to our charge . . .

Nor is it credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and yet be destitute of the most necessary faculty to enable him to receive it.

God . . . endowed [the human race] with capacity to attain to the inaccessible and invisible Supreme Good and behold it face to face . . .

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.

Oh you two look delicious, " Bast said, licking her lips. "No, no-er, I mean wonderful. Now, off you go!

there is both fear and comfort to be drawn from devils--the fear speaks for itself, the comfort comes from being able to absolve oneself of responsibility for one's actions.

The Protestants teachings affected the view of the populace to work

Be a man and breathe life back into the woman in me.

If you think half of America votes badly because they are stupid or religious, you are trapped in a matrix ... Take the red pill, learn some moral psychology and step outside the moral matrix.

I've always had an aversion to looking sexy, but I've grown out of it.

I give grace because I so desperately need it.

The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human.

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.