This is what entertainment is all about- idiots, explosives and falling anvils.

All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.

All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that is hard, difficult, laborious and full of countless griefs.

Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.

The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith

I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.

Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious to the divine wrath and producing in us those works which the scripture calls 'works of.