An over-readiness to criticise or to depreciate a minister of Christ is proof of a lack of devotion to Christ.

The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the shadow-land of life into life itself.

Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces.

Value friendship for what there is in it, not for what can be gotten out of it.

A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise study of the Bible.

Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.

If a man is unable to find the way to Jesus, he ought to be led. It is good work this bringing the blind to Him who alone can give them sight.

No parent ought to punish a child except with a view to the child's good. And in order to do good to a child through his punishment, a parent must religiously refrain from punishing him while angry.

It is not an easy thing for a parent of today to bear always in mind that every child of his is as truly an individual as he was when he was a child.

Conscience tells us that we ought to do right, but it does not tell us what right is - that we are taught by God's word.

Jesus has never slept for an hour while one of His disciples watched and prayed in agony.

There is a fascinating entanglement of science and knowledge, which is expressed as scientific knowledge.

I wasn't writing home. I wasn't writing a death letter, either. I was writing a death journal, a piece of fiction meant for my family and my fiancee, Sara.

Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

Don't be sad because i'm dying, be happy because very second another great human being is born, another great person who gets the chance to do better things than i did.

Where there's a will there's a detective story.

I'm lucky, I can sleep from takeoff until we land; so I'm fresh, rested and ready to work on arrival.

We could all be lucky. We could all be what we want to be, instead of who someone else told us to be.

And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.

Sound is the first thing that we tune into.

My favorite Muppet? Uh... Kermi -- no, Animal. Animal is my favorite now.