The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears.

Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

There is no fear in love but perfect love casteth out fear.

Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe but to find out what he has to do ... within the limits of his comprehension.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

The U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is on the rise

The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.

Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful.

The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.

All that you need is just to be silent and listen to existence.

It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!

You miss the ball you do not hit 100%