All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
I would love to have a long and serious conversation with the Pope. And Woody Allen, whom I have never interviewed. Then, after those two? Steve Jobs.
If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.
The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love
Life is not a miracle. It is a natural phenomenon, and can be expected to appear whenever there is a planet whose conditions duplicate those of the earth. [ .]
I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.
I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.
Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound body.
I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.
I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.
You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job.
All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.
One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.
I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.
Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.
Pastors have historically understood their primary battle to be not the battle to build a big church, but the battle against the power of sin.
Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.
This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make famous, even though has no talent for chemistry. { }
All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in the name of Christ, and in accordance with his directions.
