All Quotes

I simply couldn't make it without a copilot. ”

I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It's a river that immediately presents to the traveler, 'I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.' ”

I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with. ”

Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources. ”

This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God. ”

God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue. ”

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self? ”

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day. ”

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead. ”

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love. ”