We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.

What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

Every work you do should be done unto the Lord and your love to God must show in the quality of your product

What we want is never simple.

That man who lives for self alone Lives for the meanest mortal known.

Small streams don't plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He'll have us become.

Sometimes I'd like everybody who is stuck, or lost, or vacant to stay that way and keep silent for as long as it takes, but that's the critic in me talking.

The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.

The purpose of life is to live your dreams, you should never smother your wishes.

If we don't go far enough fast enough, the damage we inflict could take centuries to undo - if it can be undone at all.

Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable

Love is to understand, at last, the suffering of another.