“The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.”

Therefore, I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

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.

I’m good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.

[Donald Trump] went on to, you know, otherize Muslims, otherize Latinos, otherize women, that he built out from that. And it can be true that a unique, you know, individual like Barack Obama can succeed in spite of that and still be the case that that force is quite, quite strong.

How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?

We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.

He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.

And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?

I’ve led a career of having to take work to see my family, over picking and choosing, instead of ‘I need food on the table and I don’t know how I’m going to pay the mortgage.’