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.

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.

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

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.

If you want to save time, invest in a team.

There is no boundary between heaven and earth unless we believe in one.

Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.

It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.

A lot of journalists say, "Tell us about the '80s." Nobody wants to know about the '70s!

The man who has submitted his will and purposes entirely to God, carries God with him in all his works and in all circumstances.

Terrorism and negotiations simply don't go together.

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

I listen to the far left which informs the far right. Somewhere in the middle is where we end up.

I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.