Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.

A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats

Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.

The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! “You are the light of the world.”

You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.

If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.

I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church.

My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me.

It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.

There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.

Men have more to lose than their chains .

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still.

But the insane need to do it was stronger than the sense of whether it was a wrong or right thing to do.

What silence rules the ghostly hoursThat guard the close of human sleep!(“The Testimony of the Suns”)

I think actors who take things too far are funny.

Take what comes your way. Do the best with it. Be responsible as you can and something good will happen.

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before, yet bore no relation to what I was thinking and feeling.

Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.

There's a lot of gray area in the law. Who can say, without a doubt, that I was in the wrong?