If within us we find nothing over us we succumb to what is around us.

The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master.

We shall come one day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God's great refusals were sometimes the true answers to our truest prayer.

It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not.

To have no loyalty is to have no dignity, and in the end, no manhood.

The Living God alone can make us living men; the mighty God alone can make us mighty men; the loving God alone can make us consecrated men.

The blood of Christ stands not simply for the sting of sin on God but the scourge of God on sin, not simply for God's sorrow over sin, but for God's wrath on sin.

It is possible to be so active in the service of Christ as to forget to love him.

Faith is our relation not to what we possess but to what possesses us.

Prayer is a weapon, a mighty weapon in a terrible conflict. Our prayers are to be a continual, conscious, earnest effort of battle, the battle against whatever is not God's will.

Prayer is never rejected so long as we do not cease to pray. The chief failure of prayer is its cessation.

Everybody was sorry. Sorry was easy. Sorry was for suckers.

Darkness is my friend, and my biggest enemy" Temporary dark and deep

Most people couldn't be rich if they wanted to be honest

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Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds.

I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction.

So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.

There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.

Growing up in Paterson wasn't the easiest thing.