Just as a son, to be a son of man, must be of the same nature and spirit of his father; so with the sons of God, and so it will be with all who are born of the spirit of God.

What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts.

The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.

O that our hearts were enlarged in love to God, that we might turn inward, to the blessed comforter, that the blessed Jesus said the Father would send.

But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be natural, and we shall choose it from time to time.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make the Israelites believe that Jesus was their promised Messiah.

To the Jews only, and not to the Gentiles, was a Saviour promised.

You are never tempted by a devil without you, but by a devil within you.

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.

Too many times we are concerned with how much, instead of how little, like this [world] we can become.

The greatest danger in finding the right path often lies in here: The right path may look ugly and the wrong path may look beautiful!

I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning—raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing.

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive.

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.

If I could have the discipline to be super-skinny, I would be. I think of dieting, then I eat pizza. I'm a woman, and every woman wants to be skinnier — unfortunately.

Can you buy friendship? You not only can, you must. It's the only way to obtain friends. Everything worthwhile has a price.

Authority. The antithesis of science.

There are some bad people on the rise; they're saving their own skins by ruining people's lives.