What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are: and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.

Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice; everything is lost by failure to obey God's call.

The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance.

How do I know that there is a God? In the same way that I know, on looking at the sand, when a man or beast has crossed the desert - by His footprints in the world around me.

A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously the clearness of our mental vision.

The real difficulty with thousands in the present day is not that Christianity has been found wanting, but that it has never been seriously tried.

Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.

What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.

Truth has her sterner responsibilities sooner or later in store for those who have known anything about her.

The Church of the Apostles was a Church of the poor; of silver and gold it had none.

As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.

Vampires aren't the only ones who can hunt.

The learned is happy nature to explore the fool is happy that he knows no more.

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

I like to laugh, I like to smile, and I don't take myself too seriously. I can be a goofball.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

In the future, all religions will sink, only God will remain stand still! The untruth can survive only for a while and then it sinks!

Art is a car, kitsch is a horse.

There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.