No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world.

When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.

Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.

I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.

Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.

When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.

Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve

What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door and get struck by lightning? Probably, very slim, but then anything is possible.

I’m interested in people’s darker side, the ones that aren’t easy and well balanced. The cracks.

Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

You've mistaken me for someone else. Do not wait on me, Ms. Lane. Do not construct your world around mine. I'm not that man." "Screw you, Barrons." "I'm not that man, either.

People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth.

Men of different tastes have different pursuits.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

I was single for a really long time, then I realized I had abandonment issues. Then I found love online.

The power of a volcano when it erupts is so evident, so visible, so palpable.