If I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean that's what the best art is supposed to do.

God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.

The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove.

God [is] the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.

... even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of mans redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation.

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.

For 3 Million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person.

We are addicted to money and our obsession with it is leading to the destruction of our planet.

Please stop. If you keep chipping off little pieces of my heart, soon there will be no heart left with which to love you.

I really, really wanted to be successful in my life just based on me and my mind alone…I didn’t ever want it to be an equation that amounted to a result coming from my brain plus something else.

If you want to fly high and go amazing places, your attitude is crucial.

But only a leper shows its sins to the world.

I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential "clash of civilizations." I am an interventionist, but not a militarist. War should always be a last resort.

Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone.

Our pride has grown in the last twenty-five years, though others don't understand it and underestimate it.

You can go out and hate everybody, hate your age, and hate all the things you don't have but it will show; you have the face you deserve.

I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.

You know, after the film I said to myself, "It's a good thing you were so stupid not to be nervous. If I'd been nervous, it would have ruined the whole thing.