The best way never to fall is ever to fear.

As the wicked are hurt by the best things, so the godly are bettered by the worst.

There is nothing destroyed by sanctification but that which would destroy us.

To forsake Christ for the world, is to leave a treasure for a trifle, eternity for a moment, reality for a shadow

The bending of men's hearts to believe and persevere are the supernatural fruits of God's eternal decree, and not the natural fruits of man's depraved and frail free-will.

There are many who are lip servants but not life servants.

Truth reforms as well as informs.

We are not justified by doing good works, but being justified we then do good.

There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up.

A man though carrying God may be of no worth to himself, to his family, to his nation and to the people around him.

The more you create great music, the more it makes you eager to create more and more

There’s no such thing as fiction or imagination, as they’re merely non-fiction manifestations in the wrong parallel universe.

Love comes unseen we only see it go.

You must be all a-tingle with excitement.' 'I guess so,' I said, but I did not feel a-tingle. I did not feel a-anything.

I'm a huge fan of things like The Wire and The Shield.

The plague of gold strikes far and near.

I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.

Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.

We know others to the extent that we know ourselves.