In our first paradise in Eden there was a way to go out but no way to go in again. But as for the heavenly paradise, there is a way to go in, but not way to go out.

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.

Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?

Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.

You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.

When we grow in faith, the doubt shall ceased.

When you live positively it is impossible to not also be living for something greater than yourself.

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.

There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry.

It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.

I never talk about a job before the contract is signed and I've shot the first three days.

It's about the production of the work. I need my workers to stay focused.

That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.

The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.