“There is nothing love cannot face; there is limit to its faith, its hope and endurance.”

Bad company ruins good morals.

He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places . . . He destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace that he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart.

Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

We were by nature children of wrath, even as others.

The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy, for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

In everything give thanks

For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he’s overcharging you.

To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed.

For all we know, we know nothing.

This is the message of your life and my life – it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children – nothing lasts.

The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.

Why are my arms so weak? It’s like I did that push-up last year for nothing!