When the Son of God comes to rescue us and bring us back to God, He does not find in us the ability to believe.

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.

Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?

Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.

You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.

Happy roads is bunk. Weary roads is right. Get you nowhere fast. That's where I've got—nowhere. Where everyone lands in the end, even if most of the suckers won't admit it.

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

The silence is death. It comes each day with its shock to sit on my shoulder, a white bird, and peck at the black eyes and the vibrating red muscle of my mouth.

Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.

You must...know that you are great. Never forget that. It is where true joy lies.

If you don't have dreams, you will end up working for people who do.

As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.

It's perfectly within [Martin Peretz] rights [to fire a journalist]. It's a private - you know, th - it's not censorship. The First Amendment doesn't come into play because it's a private magazine.

I don't judge my characters, and that's my job not to judge them.