Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.

Your mercies are more than your afflictions.

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.

I beseech you to consider that God does not deal by you as you deal with him.

One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.

It is the happiness of heaven to have God be all in all.

Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.

A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.

What is the duty of the circumstances God has put me into?

Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so much.

Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which will certainly grow up to eternal life.

I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it.

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.

We live in a world where people are fearful of extremism, but Martin Luther King would say he was always trying to keep the flow of love in place. In that sense, he turned the world on its head.

Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights... We have to recognize that we have a long way to go, but we have to go that way together.

Be cheerful in all that you do. Live joyfully. Live happily. Live enthusiastically, knowing that God does not dwell in gloom and melancholy, but in light and love.

Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.

What are you doing here " "Hiding with you

We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.

I played teen roles until high definition came out.

Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!