Mount Shasta - a vision of immensity such as pertains to the vast universe rather than to our own planet.

Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have talked of electrical forces, the first and last appeal of ignorance.

The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans.

Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of things about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits of vision, the word mystery.

The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it will sustain and illustrate the Sacred word.

The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again, and continues to grow and flourish as before.

The house is eerily quiet. All this time I thought silence would be a welcome reprieve, but it's less comforting than I imagined. The house feels so much bigger and colder than it ever has.

Coming to Christ is not an event. It is a process where we keep trying and trying and never give up.

It's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy.

But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.

Real patriots ask questions.

Homosexuality is the sexual plague of a monogamous society gone promiscuous. These societies that sow the winds of heterosexual freedom ironically reap the whirlwind of homosexual perversion.

It is necessary for men to be deceived in religion.

the most successful marriages were always based on both partners feeling that they had done rather well for themselves.

History is all explained by geography.

It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it.