I am only human, although I regret it.

I don't just commit sin. Apart from God, I am sinful. My problem is not just what I do; it's who I am without His nature.

Sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature

Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.

Two sorts of peace are more to be dreaded than all the troubles in the world — peace with sin, and peace in sin.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Part of what makes a human being a human being is the imperfections. Like, you wouldn't give a robot my ears. You just wouldn't do that.

A man can be saved and not believe in the Doctrines of Grace...but he must be a very proud man. Unknown-but if you know who said it, please tell me You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.

His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning wreckage of the island; and infected by that emotion, the other little boys began to shake and sob too. And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of mans heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.

If the atheist believes that suffering is bad or ought not to be, then he's making moral judgments that are possible only if God exists.

And now, Sir, you may see in the greatest Clearness how every Thing in this World, every Thing in the Soul and Body of Man, absolutely requires the one Redemption of the Gospel.

No poor creature stands in need of divine grace more than I, and none abuse it more than I have done, and still do.