“Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lustLike diamonds we are cut with our own dust”

“Believing can mean something a good deal less than certainty. I believe the bus will come in five minutes, but I cant be sure. Or sometimes it can mean the kind of knowledge which is acquired after...”

“Our believing has no power of itself; we certainly arent saved by belief. Were saved by the grace and goodness and majesty of him in whom we believeby the one whom we confess as we believe. In a re...”

“Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lustLike diamonds, we are cut with our own dust”

“Why do we tell lies? We lie because the truth is too painful or too shameful for us to face, or because the truth is simply inconvenient and has to be suppressed before its allowed to disturb us. W...”

“When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.”

“O that I were a man, or that I had powerTo execute my apprehended wishes!I would whip some with scorpions.”

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”

“As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.”

“What a curious power words have.”