Whatever capacities there may be for enjoyment or for suffering in this strange being of ours, and God only knows what they are, they will be drawn out wholly in accordance with character.

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.

Certainly, no revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity.

Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.

Who will reach heaven? I do not know, but I am certain that no one will be there who does not feel at home.

Christianity alone inspires and guides progress; for the progress of man is movement toward God. and movement toward God wili ensure a gradual unfolding of all that exalts and adorns man.

All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.

Faith then, in its relation to salvation, is that confidence by which we accept it as a free gift from the Saviour, and is the only possible way in which the gift of God could be appropriated.

Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority.

I've never been on a fad diet.

I'm still here, I'm still alive, I'm still blessed, on my way to my destiny, because the favor of God is on my life.

Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.

Love can make even nice people do awful things.

When love's the culmination of everything you feel, then it's the only thing that's precious, it's the only thing that's real.

In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.

Government does not create jobs. Government does not create jobs.

Have you ever noticed how people who wear camouflage gear really stand out in a crowd?

I couldn’t help it,” I said, knowing how lame that sounded. It was as bad as Angeline’s “it’s not my fault” mantra.