“He who knows what God is, studies to avoid sin.”

Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin.

However much we suffer for the love of Jesus Crucified, it is but little.

The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.’

I was watching souls going down into the abyss as thick and fast as snowflakes falling in the winter mist.

We offend God because we do not know His greatness.

Try hard to be among the few who are chosen. Think of the eternal flames of Hell, and how few there are that are saved.

The poor should live by alms.

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don’t actually know what we actually know.

The reason you don’t like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.

Everyone knows that! Hobbes: I’m looking it up. Calvin: You do, and I’ll look up that 12-letter word you played with all the Xs and Js! Hobbes: What’s your score for ZQFMGB? Calvin: 957.

A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know.

I bring up God alot in my show, know why? Because I miss him.

I have great respect for directors who know what they’re doing.

Now, I’ve gotten to the point in my career, I’m 13 years in, to where I know that I’m funny. I know that I’m good at this.

Fortunately, as we all know, it’s impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.