Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images.

You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read.

Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.

But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk.

I am in limbo, and in limbo there are no races, no prizes, no changes, no chances. There are merely degrees of endurance, and endurance never was my strong point.

Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.

Language is by its very nature a communal thing.

There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow.

You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing, you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.

It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.

It's not a question of doing the best thing for the environment - the best thing for the environment is for people to stop using vast amounts of energy.

To persevere in one's duty and be silent is the best answer to calumny.

In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream.

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor

Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls.

People are dying who haven't had that opportunity to say yes to the Lord.

God did not create woman from man’s head, that he should command her, nor from his feet, that she should be his slave, but rather from his side, that she should be near his heart.

The best Reformed theology isn't just about careful arguments for theologically sophisticated conclusions. It is about how to live the Christian life.

Before you can transform your wallet from poor to rich, you've got to transform your spirit from poor to rich.

Life is singing also in the sand crunching under the slow and heavy steps of the guards, when we know how to listen to it.

To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.