There is no golden mean between these two extremes; either this early life must become low in our estimation, or it will have our inordinate love.

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

You alwaysdrop by, to en-lighten my mind, when my wings arefeeling heavy &i've forgottenhow tofly.

I hid myself in food.

This is the greatest paradox: the emotions cannot be trusted; yet it is the emotions that tell us the greatest truths.

The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence.

I love the U.S. I love doing business there.

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.

Oh, how daily life is. (Ah, que la vie est quotidienne.)

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.