O what pride, conforming to the world and following its fashions! Warn them, warn them for me, while you have strength and time and be faithful to your duty.

My desire is to live more to God to-day than yesterday, and to be more holy this hour than the last.

We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works.

We live by faith in a prayer-hearing, soul-converting , soul-sanctifyin g, soul-restoring, soul-comforting God.

God is gracious beyond the power of language to describe.

Whither am I going? To the New World. What to do? To gain honor? No, if I know my own heart. To get money? No: I am going to live to God, and to bring others so to do.

Oh what people of God we ought to be; and grace can make us so!

My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.

Preach as if you had seen heaven and its celestial inhabitants, and had hovered over the bottomless pit, and beheld the tortures, and heard the groans of the damned.

You can explore life by faith.

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals and then a few that punish them.

The Romans would never have had time to conquer the world if they had been obliged to learn Latin first of all.

Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails.

I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure.

The amount of quaint, authentic, rustic charm varies inversely with the pounds per square inch of water pressure in the shower.

A rill in a barnyard and the Grand Canyon represent, in the main, stages of valley erosion that began some millions of years apart.

I don't like to dwell all day over one scene as you do in a big feature.

In television, you can leave so many things open-ended. For everything you wrap up, you can open another one or two.

Any child can be developed, it depends on how you do it