There are babies a span long in hell.

When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.

Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.

I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.

Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.

When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.

Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve

The final tormenting, unanswerable question: what is 'success' in mourning?

Writing is my joy, is my comfort zone, it strengthens my feeble knees and it frees my troubled heart.

Actually, I think my hands are in the best shape they've ever been in terms of what I can do.

If I have one thing perfect, it's my eyebrows. And my feet. I love my feet. They're like Japanese feet. The rest I would like to hide. Especially my freckles. I feel ridiculous.

Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material.

Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.

I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

It is not how much you make that counts, but how much money you keep.

The thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up.