Nothing escapes God's knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun, which, although created, yet by its light or heat enters into all things.

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.

God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.

Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.

No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.

if you think you know all that somebody knows, you shall least know all that somebody knows. If you think you least know all that somebody knows, you shall really know all that somebody knows.

Need from destiny change with time.

It is when you start to have the interest of people in your heart that when you start to make a change.

It's interesting how Obama's adorers in the press keep comparing him to Lincoln and Reagan. Apparently they can't think of a Democrat president worthy of being compared to.

There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.

In fact, the ultimate speculation we can make about the nature of Divinity is that Divinity is NO-THING which we can know. In Hebrew, the word for no-thing (nothing) is AIN.

I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

If you want to study writing, read Dickens

I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.