There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.
When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it. . We must adore its loftiness rather than investigate it, so that we do not remain overwhelmed by so great a splendor.
Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve
Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.
Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he's going to do a great job.
Parents have no right to impose their religion on their children. . . A Fundamentalist Protestant parent has no right to expect the state to support his own narrow conception of education.
I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.
Experience alone does not create knowledge.