Until sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.

Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.

God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.

Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.

A weak faith can lay hold on a strong Christ.

Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.

Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages.

The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.

Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.

How many souls have been blown into hell with the wind of popular applause?

A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.

Your eyes were the bait luring me into your world. Your kiss was the trap door keeping me prisoner there.

You learn to move on without the people you love.

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes.

Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls.

Be superior to pleasure.

No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable.

I love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance!

It is an open secret that Jews do not work, but rather let others work for them.

The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing.