This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.

Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.

I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.

Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.

To be filled with God, is a great thing; to be filled with the fulness of God, is still greater; to be filled with all the fulness of God, is greatest of all.

As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.

The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.

But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.

To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.

I love my daughter, but there's a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?

We all have our secrets. We all have our vulnerabilities.

At the beginning and the middle and the end of all things, there is only the perfection of enlightenment that is nirvana.

Nothing changes like changes, because nothing changes but the changes.

Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.

To be honest with you, I'm more of a girl's girl. I'm much more comfortable being around other girls.

I dove on those papers like Sherlock Holmes on a cappuccino binge.

We are either kings or pawns of men

The objective tendency of the Enlightenment, to wipe out the power of images over man, is not matched by any subjective progress on the part of enlightened thinking towards freedom from images.