Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul.

No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us.

The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too much, and God too little.

The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated.

What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!

As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low.

Suppose that by revenge you might destroy one enemy; yet, by exercising the Christian's temper you might conquer three‌–‌your own lust, Satan's temptation, and your enemy's heart.

The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.

To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world.

Whatever be the ground of one's distress, it should drive him to, not from God.

Everything you love also loves you.

Stupidity is the chlorine that cleans out the gene pool.

To the being of fully alive the future is not ominous but a promise it surrounds the present like a halo.

I can tell you that God is alive because I talked to him this morning.

A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm.

I'm constantly seen as a 'foreigner,' and I need my passport to prove my identity, to keep moving and to carry on my work.

I've never seen a homeless guy with a bottle of Gatorade.

Some people say 'Why is a football coach concerned?' I explained I'm an American first and all Americans should care about justice.

The only way to change things is to shoot men who arrange things.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.