A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him.

Hope for the best, get ready for the worst, and then take what God chooses to send.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

Christ's followers cannot expect better treatment in the world than their Master had.

The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.

It was the greatest honor God did to man that he made man in the image of God; but it is the greatest dishonor man has done to God that he has made God in the image of man.

The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it.

There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

After a storm comes a calm.

Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.

To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.

A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't

The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.

Consistency is a contraceptive; it prevents the birth of new things!

The more I have written, the less it has been about exploring myself, and the more it has been about exploring the world around me.

Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the policy was made for corrupt purposes, I reject it.

One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.

Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth.