Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.

We must show our Christian colors, if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. We cannot remain silent or concede everything away.

Always winter but never Christmas.

It's always winter but it's never Christmas.

Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.

We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world....No doubt pain as God's megaphone is a terrible instrument; it may lead to final and unrepented rebellion. But it gives the only opportunity the bad man can have for amendment. it removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of the rebel soul.

Once in our world, a Stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.