We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one

It is strange how often a heart must be broken Before the years can make it wise.

Your are where you desire to live.

Long miles of snow and mountains spun out behind him, and his hooves scattered stardust or snow crystals. He went bounding on and on, right on the spine of the world, thrust out against the night sky

My mom dressed me in silk to go to elementary school.

It seems to me to be the best proof of an evangelical disposition, that persons are not angry when reproached, and have a Christian charity for those that ill deserve it.

The language of love may be universal, but it's not one of the options on an ATM machine.

But you the pathways of the sky Found first, and tasted heavenly springs, Unfettered as the lark that sings, And knew strange raptures, - though we sigh, "Poor Iccarus!"

If you want results, they don't come for free.

This is the mystery of the riches of divine grace for sinners; for by a wonderful exchange our sins are now not ours but Christ's, and Christ's righteousness is not Christ's but ours.