Make disciples of all the nations in my Name.

It will sometimes be necessary to use falsehood for the benefit of those who need such a mode of treatment.

It is an act of virtue to deceive and lie, when by such means the interest of the church might be promoted.

The religion of Jesus Christ is neither new nor strange.

Having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men.

But the people of the church in Jerusalem had been commanded by a revelation, vouchsafed to approved men there before the war, to leave the city and to dwell in a certain town of Perea called Pella.

On some occasions the bodies of the martyrs who had been devoured by wild beasts, upon the beasts being strangled, were found alive in their stomachs.

While the saving message spread day by day, some providence brought from Ethiopia an officer of the queen, for that nation is still traditionally ruled by a woman.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.

In the days following the crash, an axiom as old as the Republic came into play once more. In good times Wall Street wanted Washington to leave it alone. In bad times it wanted Washington to act.

He turned one of his death rays into an ice cream maker, except he said I shouldn’t eat too much of it at once.”I nodded slowly. “Right, ” I said. “That’s…sweet, I think.

The people of Oklahoma deserve better. We deserve leadership that's willing and unafraid to take a public stand against bigotry and bullying.

Don't piss your life away with suicide...it's a bullshit way out.

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with-in vain.

Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.

Miracles are happening all the time, but if your eyes aren't open and your ears aren't open and your mind's not open and your heart's not open - then even though the miracles are there - you're not!