The piecemeal criticism which, like the fly, scans only the edge of a plinth in the great edifice upon which it crawls, disappears under a criticism that is all-comprehending and all-surveying.

Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he can be, but he has no holiness, that is, no supreme love of God

Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.

There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline.

Frogs are smart - they eat what bugs them.

A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.

They say that travelling broadens your mind, but first you must have a mind.

Clear statement is argument.

Sometimes your diary is the perfect listener.

And the stories we tell ourselves are not the only stories.

As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel.

Brilliant, inspiring . . . if you are on a pursuit of self-mastery, make time to read this!

William Shawn was the editor of The New Yorker and for whom I worked for, God, 27 years; a man I respected enormously because of what he did, - what the magazine was about.

I'm so used to changing time zones that I can sleep at any time. I'm rarely ever tossing and turning - if I am, it's really a big deal.

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.

That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ.

My church is fifty percent millennials. There's a connectivity between millennials and I.

I think when Aristotle said that man is a political animal, he was really saying that man is a pack animal.