There is no short cut, no patent tram-road, to wisdom: after all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must be still trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.

There is no gain without struggle.

If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail.

Every day we choose not to commit suicide we are manifesting our fundamental conviction that life is worth it, despite all the pain we may experience.

I doubted God last Sunday said Rilla but I don't doubt Him today. Evil cannot win. Spirit is on our side and it is bound to outlast flesh.

But the biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War.

The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.

Freedom is not free

Once you have ventured the decisive act, you are at odds with the life of this world. You come into collision with it, and because of this you will gradually be brought into such tension that you will then be able to become certain of what Christ taught. You will begin to understand that you cannot endure this world without having recourse to Christ. What else can one expect from following the truth?

The poor shall never cease out of the land.

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.