When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

Love is the great conqueror of lust.

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house.

Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.

A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far.

When folks find I ain't afeard to speak my mind on their affairs, they kinder guess I'm tellin' the truth about my own.

You must be willing to protect yourself and what you cherish, no matter what the cost.

Instead of just getting old and giving up and dying, let's learn to make a huge contribution to life.

Fly! There's a lot of sky out there for brave birds.

Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary takeover at all, but a game. Like a kid pulling wings off flies.

Liberalism demands that people without guns be able to tell people with guns what to do.

Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those people that whenever he talked to you, you felt like you were the center of the universe.