In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.

The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance.

I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.

Lord, give me Scotland or I die!

A man with God is always in the majority.

Live in Christ, die in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death.

Let no day slip over without some comfort received from the mouth of God.

I will keep the ground that God has given me and perhaps in his grace, he will ignite me again. But ignite me or not, in his grace, in his power, I will hold the ground.

I sought neither preeminence, glory, nor riches; my honor was that Jesus Christ should reign.

When I think of those who have influenced my life the most, I think not of the great but of the good.

The Monstrous Regiment of Women.

There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.

The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States. We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.

Some people in my family achieved a lot, some people inherited a lot. But I turned my back on the whole thing.

I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose.

No matter what decade science fiction comes from, it's representing the present.

Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

We learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament.

Picasso.” He whispers like a priest. “Picasso. Who saw the truth. Who painted the truth, molded it, ripped from the earth with two angry hands.

It takes two to tango; when I go, you go.

But you know what I'm trying to say, it's that there's a couple of really dangerous drugs out there and I've lost some friends to them.