A little knowledge and an over-abundance of zeal always tends to be harmful. In the area involving religious truths, it can be disastrous.

Today, Jesus stands ready to hear your cry and to answer prayer for you. He is interested in every detail of your life. He knows you better than you know yourself.

God is not looking for gold vessels or silver vessels. He is looking for willing vessels

Great sea captains are made in rough waters and deep seas.

The greatest human attainment in all the world is for a life to be so surrendered to Him that the name of God Almighty will be glorified through that life.

I surrendered unto Him all there was of me; everything! Then for the first time I realized what it meant to have real power.

God does not patch up the old life, or make certain repairs on the old life; He gives a new life, through the new birth.

Faith is that quality or power by which the things desired become the things possessed.

The only limit to the power of Almighty God lies within you & me.

The Heavenly Father does not ask for golden vessels. He does not ask for silver vessels. God asks for yielded vessels.

Whether life grinds a man down or polishes him depends on what he's made of.

No "we" should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

Blame the economy, blame bad luck, blame my parents, blame your parents, blame the Internet, blame people who use the Internet.

There is chaos behind the civility, of course.

Felicity grimaced in agreement. “No, you are perfectly correct. I did not realize how vital the approbation of one’s butler is in allowing for nocturnal autonomy.

Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again

I took a wrong turn the other day. A mistake, but it led me to the shop where I found the very thing I’d been searching for.

I don't have anybody telling me what to say. I have people who would suggest, maybe, that I shouldn't do this, that or the other, but that's strictly up to me.

Caged birds sing of freedom, free birds fly.

On why he no longer went to Ruggeri's, a St. Louis restaurant: "Nobody goes there anymore because it's too crowded."