The best way to resist temptation is to avoid it. Prevention is far, far better than repentance.

God does watch over us and does notice us, but it usually through someone else that he meets our needs.

Humility is royalty without a crown.

No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness.

Do it. Do it right. Do it right now.

Real craftsmanship, regardless of the skill involved, reflects real caring, and real caring reflects our attitude about ourselves, about our fellowmen, and about life.

Dream beautiful dreams and then work to make those dreams come true.

I am convinced that each of us, at some time in our lives, must discover the scriptures for ourselves—and not just discover them once, but rediscover them again and again.

There are great challenges ahead of us, giant opportunities to be met. I welcome that exciting prospect and feel to say to the Lord, humbly, 'Give me this MOUNTAIN,' give me these challenges.

The difficulties and hazards of marriage are greatly increased where backgrounds are different

Success is not measured in achievement of goals, but in the stress and strain of meeting those goals

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

So, this is my life. And I’m the architect of my happiness and sadness.

So many women keep their anger inside and let it build until they explode and then people blow them off again.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

I like people who are able to keep pushing themselves and challenging themselves even after great success.

The law of nature gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked. And God's law itself gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked.

The first step is learning to monitor your thoughts; to think about what you are thinking about.

When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, 'tain't any laughing matter!

There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.

A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.