“Nothing is more beautiful in the eyes of God than a soul that loves to hear His Word.”

Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love receiving from above faith and giving out below love.

As long as we live there is never enough singing.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.

No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.

Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you.

Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

Now the Church is not wood and stone, but the company of believing people; one must hold to them, and see how they believe, live and teach.

Unthankfulness is theft.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it.

This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.

Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.

Beauty is in you and is reflected in your eyes. It is not material.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

She’s beautiful chaos and wild butterflies.

I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.

Fast cars like Porsches and Ferraris – they are things of beauty.

Your mind is a your temple, keep it beautiful and free. Don’t let an egg get laid in it by something you can’t see.

The world is very lovely, and it’s very horrible–and it doesn’t care about your life or mine or anything else.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.