O that our hearts were enlarged in love to God, that we might turn inward, to the blessed comforter, that the blessed Jesus said the Father would send.

Just as a son, to be a son of man, must be of the same nature and spirit of his father; so with the sons of God, and so it will be with all who are born of the spirit of God.

What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts.

The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.

But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be natural, and we shall choose it from time to time.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make the Israelites believe that Jesus was their promised Messiah.

To the Jews only, and not to the Gentiles, was a Saviour promised.

You are never tempted by a devil without you, but by a devil within you.

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.

Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

If you really want to hurt, find someone who loves you.

Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.

I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical.

Ah me son, we don't be takin' nothin' from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle it away

Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life.

All things are plotting to make us whole / All things conspire to make us one.

As a student of American culture, I am willing to argue that the Twist is a valid manifestation of the Age of Anxiety.

There is nothing that Nature seems to have inclined us to as much as society.

Women's style is so hard for me. I just know what I think looks good.