Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all, the abuses and treasons of its friends have not shaken its stability.

Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

Trust in God for great things. With your five loaves and two fishes He will show you a way to feed thousands.

Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.

By His trials, God means to purify us, to take away all our self-confidence, and our trust in each other, and bring us into implicit, humble trust in Himself.

However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud.

Somewhere under the stars God has a job for you to do and nobody else can do it.

God listens for nothing so tenderly, as when His children help each other by their testimonies to His goodness and the way in which He has brought them deliverance.

Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

it's always good to know that you have been the best even though deep inside you know you will never be better than that.

Maybe you'll win when hell freezes over."He raised an eyebrow."That could be easily arranged.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity till he has tasted adversity.

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.

And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.

Nothing so difficult as a beginning In poesy, unless perhaps the end.

When I was a waiter, I wanted to be the best waiter I could be and worked to be better at it every day.

Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.

The best antidote to the disruptive power of innovation is overregulation.