Those that have so much power over others as to be able to oppress them have seldom so much over themselves as not to oppress.

Hope for the best, get ready for the worst, and then take what God chooses to send.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

Christ's followers cannot expect better treatment in the world than their Master had.

The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.

It was the greatest honor God did to man that he made man in the image of God; but it is the greatest dishonor man has done to God that he has made God in the image of man.

The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it.

There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

After a storm comes a calm.

Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.

You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.

I tell myself that with enough effort, I can control my feelings.

The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.

You can't get someone to like something they aren't feeling. After you press play, there isn't anything you can do.

Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation.

Say you are well, or all is well with you, and God shall hear your words and make them true.

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

Until he has been part of a cause larger than himself, no man is truly whole.

Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.

I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.