The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

It is certain because it is possible.

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.

The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.

Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.

Christians are made, not born.

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'

The nature of rumor is known to all.

The entire fruit is already present in the seed.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

It is certain because it is impossible.

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.

He who flees will fight again.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

See how these Christians love one another.

Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.

To forbid birth is only quicker murder. He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.

All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced...the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.

All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced...the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.

Twice a week I would receive injections or IV's of Factor VIII which clotted the blood and then broke it down.

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.

I had no blood relatives till I made some.

I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones and spent years in hospitals.

Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.

Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.

I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood.

There are two times of the year that stir the blood. In the fall, for the hunt, and now for lacrosse.