No victor believes in chance.
Eloquence is logic on fire.
We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
[Disestablishment was] the best thing that ever happened to the state of Connecticut. It cut the churches loose from dependence on state support. It threw them wholly on their own resources and on God.
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it
. . . Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.
Only one girl has ever really wrapped my stomach into pretzels. She didn’t give me butterflies. She gave me pterodactyls I’m talking terrible internal bruising and the first time I kissed her was like the first time I saw fireworks, which was like the sky first kissing me in the eyeballs
We are all here on earth to help others.
If you are worshipping God without depending on the Spirit of God, you are serving a god you do not know.