"Everything ordinary has the potential to be extraordinary."

“At the bottom of at least popular Marxism there has always been a kind of disgust with humanity as it is and a perfect faith in humanity as it is to be.”

Source : Lionel Trilling, Leon Wieseltier (2009). “The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays”, p.31, Northwestern University Press

“In American fiction, belief is like that. Belief as upbringing, belief as social fact, belief as a species of American weirdness: our literary fiction has all of these things. All that is missing is the believer.”

“There isn’t a violent soul on the planet that God might not save and transform for himself.”

“If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.”

“Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.”

“Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.”

“Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift of God. The energy and the power which was so very evident in Jesus will be exhibited in us by an act of the absolute sovereign grace of God, once we have made that complete and effective decision about sin. We have to keep letting go, and slowly, but surely, the great full life of God will invade us, penetrating every part.”

“People go wrong in their fellowships before they go wrong in their doctrine.”