The LORD is the help of my life

All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.

As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.

Though I bequeath you no estate, I leave you in the enjoyment of liberty.

The great hope, and for the propagating and advancing the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world

Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.

But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.

Behold, now, another providence of God. A ship comes into the harbor.

And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.

The loss of...honest and industrious men's lives cannot be valued at any price.

We could not now take time for further search or consideration, our victuals being much spent, especially our beer.

Data data everywhere but not a thought to think.

The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.

With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.

I'm not God's gift to rockabilly. There's great players out there, and some of them deserve a lot more than they've gotten.

Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.

I don't think we should focus on what church that person walks into .. I think we need to focus on what they do when they walk out of church.

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.

Deliverance is always found on 'the mount'; living faith must first prove to God that it has taken His word and promise for victory.

Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.

A warrior is worthless unless he rises above others and stands strong in the midst of a storm.