The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.

Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.

The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.

It's important to me to say what I really mean.

I think it's kinda funny that all these rappers that used to be gangsters and thugs are telling us not to download their music from the internet, because that's stealing. Wow talk about ironic.

Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family back-ground; they are measured by the size of their thinking.

Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.

Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes.

I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace. And America is constantly at war.

There is no pride on earth like the pride of intellect and science.

Sometimes discipline, which means 'to teach,' is confused with criticism. Children-as well as people of all ages-improve behavior from love and encouragement more than from fault-finding.