I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair, and just, and they want their country to reflect those ideals.

Heaven means to be one with God.

‚God‘ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‚Deity‘ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

Every man’s memory is his private literature.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

I have always believed in God.

It is right to give every man his due.

I am a just man.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

I still close my eyes and go home – I can always draw from that.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.