As a Christian should do no injuries to others, so he should forgive the injuries that others do to him. It is to be like God, who is a good-giving God, and a sin-forgiving God.

To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.

Sin promises like a God but pays like a Devil

Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.

Take notice not only of the mercies of God, but of God in the mercies. Mercies are never so savoury as when they savour a Saviour.

All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.

That is good which doth good.

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Especially when you're working so closely with people and you have to develop intense relationships, it's great when you have a relationship and a rapport with them.

We've sent a man to the moon and that's 29,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive that in a week but for some reason nobody's ever done it.

I've just always loved animals. So I've often thought that if I weren't a writer I'd work for some nonprofit organization that does something positive for animals.

If homes are going to survive, it will be because husbands and fathers again place their families at the highest level on their system of priorities.

Just because everybody else is engaged in a group hug with Barack Obama doesn't mean that somebody doesn't have to tell the truth.

The Gospel is not a picture of adoption, adoption is a picture of the Gospel.

I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.

We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.

The crucial question for any policy is not what, are its intentions, but what are its effects?