When an engineer has built a bridge, the fact that a cat can pass over the bridge is no proof that the bridge is good. A train must pass over it to prove its strength.

A faith that can be destroyed by suffering is not faith.

Consider as sin any minute of life spent on something other than saving souls for eternity from this world doomed to destruction.

A man really believes not what he recites in his creed, but only the things he is ready to die for.

I have found truly jubilant Christians only in the Bible, in the Underground Church and in prison.

Not all of us are called to die a martyr’s death, but all of us are called to have the same spirit of self-sacrifice and love to the very end as these martyrs had.

A flower, if you bruise it under your feet, rewards you by giving you its perfume.

God will judge us not according to how much we endured, but how much we could love

The human heart by nature seeks after God. There is a spiritual vacuum in every man until it is filled by Christ.

God is the Truth. The Bible is the truth about the Truth. Theology is the truth about the truth about the Truth.

If a Christian really believed that his neighbor will be tortured in all eternity in Hell, he should try day and night to persuade him to repent and believe. How sad that this doesn't happen.

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

Rise to become human again, my friend. Become the human, that talks humans, acts humans and lives human.

The person she liked best didn't like her enough to want more of her, and she didn't want to pretend that wasn't awful.

To be restored to Christ is to know a fulfilled life

I became a professional actor in Detroit and I was able to earn some money. It was a good job because it permitted me to study. It fit perfectly with school.

Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them.

There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals.

Guys do ridiculous things for love." Adrian reached into his pocket and held up a pack of cigarettes. "Do you know how badly I want one of these right now? Yet I suffer, Rose. All for you.

There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.

If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.