The secret of spiritual success is a hunger that persists…It is an awful condition to be satisfied with one’s spiritual attainments…God was and is looking for hungry, thirsty people.
Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills.
God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.
To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid “big” sins-is this passionate, wholehearted love for God?
I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true; for the Cyprians whose jollity had been so extravagant and tumultuous, now sunk under a sense of their danger and wept like women. I heard nothing but the screams of terror and the wailings of hopeless distress. Some lamented the loss of pleasures that were never to return; but none had presence of mind either to undertake or direct the navigation of the menaced vessel.
We may as well tolerate all religions, since God Himself tolerates all.
There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion.
It's harder to be kind than clever
Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.
There's many a man has more hair than wit.
It's almost like I get to be more theatrical when I work in voiceover.