To have no loyalty is to have no dignity, and in the end, no manhood.

The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master.

We shall come one day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God's great refusals were sometimes the true answers to our truest prayer.

If within us we find nothing over us we succumb to what is around us.

It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not.

The Living God alone can make us living men; the mighty God alone can make us mighty men; the loving God alone can make us consecrated men.

The blood of Christ stands not simply for the sting of sin on God but the scourge of God on sin, not simply for God's sorrow over sin, but for God's wrath on sin.

It is possible to be so active in the service of Christ as to forget to love him.

Faith is our relation not to what we possess but to what possesses us.

Prayer is a weapon, a mighty weapon in a terrible conflict. Our prayers are to be a continual, conscious, earnest effort of battle, the battle against whatever is not God's will.

Prayer is never rejected so long as we do not cease to pray. The chief failure of prayer is its cessation.

I'm going to die. And as if that weren't bad enough, I'm going to die inside a cake.

Treasures are not found where many feet have trampled. They are found along the paths that no one else has taken...yet.

They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.

I had been elected to the National Academy of Design in New York, and one of the requirements was that you give a portrait, a self-portrait of yourself.

Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.

The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world.

Those that consult more, make less mistakes

I can't believe the ignorance there, so I don't allow it to affect my life, I don't allow it to come into my zone, and it's not in my world, really.