Our Southern brethren have done grievously, they have rebelled and have attacked their father's house and their loyal brothers. They must be punished and brought back, but this necessity breaks my heart.

That Jesus of Nazareth died upon a cross is mere matter of history; that He who did so die was the Christ the Son of God is entirely a matter of revelation.

The Cross was the manifestation of Divine love without reserve or limit; but it was also the expression of man's unutterable malignity.

I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a few days.

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

Death ends a life, it does not end a relationship.

Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship, which struggles on in the survivor's mind toward some resolution which it may never find.