Her children arise up and call her blessed.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

The real satanist is not quite so easily recognized as such

The kingdom of God is within you.

With God, all things are possible.

A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise of God. An art work can be a doxology in itself.

Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

Across all fields, women are generally paid 21 percent less than men.

One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.

A quality of justice A quantity of light A particle of mercy Makes the color of right

I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.

I do think men fear female intuition.

Because we humans find stories such fascinating things, it’s all too easy to get interested in the story for its own sake, and lose sight of the purpose for which we set out to use the story.