O blessed be the grace that makes advantages of my corruptions, even to contradict and kill themselves (648).

The strongest Christian is unsafe among occasions to sin (519).

Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).

what a silly, frail, and forward pieces are the best of men (647)!

Sirs, so much as your hearts as is empty of Christ and heaven, let it be filled with shame and sorrow, and not with ease (483).

The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you(15).

If your hope dieth, your duties die, your endeavors die, your joys die, and your souls die. And if your hope be not acted, but lie asleep, it is next to dead, both in likenss and preparation( 585).

He that believeth that he believe, believeth himself and not God (333)[.]

[O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.]

If every work of the day had thus its appointed time, we should be better skilled, both in redeeming time and performing duty (556).

Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!

The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.

She Had a Wish, To Leave This Old Town, and See the World Out there

Defend the church. Defend the family. Defend the non-profit community. Defend them against a government that wants to weaken them.

Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.

I don’t think I will get married,” Polly said as she stood up. “I’m going to train to be a hero instead.

It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.

His brothers were the type; he was the variation.

The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!

The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.

Sin claims to free but in fact it kills.