A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise study of the Bible.

The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the shadow-land of life into life itself.

Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces.

Value friendship for what there is in it, not for what can be gotten out of it.

Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.

If a man is unable to find the way to Jesus, he ought to be led. It is good work this bringing the blind to Him who alone can give them sight.

No parent ought to punish a child except with a view to the child's good. And in order to do good to a child through his punishment, a parent must religiously refrain from punishing him while angry.

An over-readiness to criticise or to depreciate a minister of Christ is proof of a lack of devotion to Christ.

It is not an easy thing for a parent of today to bear always in mind that every child of his is as truly an individual as he was when he was a child.

Conscience tells us that we ought to do right, but it does not tell us what right is - that we are taught by God's word.

Jesus has never slept for an hour while one of His disciples watched and prayed in agony.

Because I am exactly where I should be, doing exactly what I should be doing. That is peace.

A cup at Starbucks isn't really that expensive when you consider what Victoria's Secret charges per cup.

I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.

I just was apologizing for maybe being a little goofy.

Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.

I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some grandbabies.

Not letting our mood affect the way we treat people is a forgotten sunnah

We can't rely on others to be our teachers anymorethe future belongs to individuals who decide to become great bosses (and teachers).

I'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers.

I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.