A spiritual prayer is a humble prayer. Prayer is the asking of an alms, which requires humility... The lower the heart descends, the higher the prayer ascends.

Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.

God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.

Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.

A weak faith can lay hold on a strong Christ.

Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.

Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages.

The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.

Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.

How many souls have been blown into hell with the wind of popular applause?

A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.

Men who thought of themselves as gods fell the farthest, and the hardest.

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated.

The people of America are in agreement in defending their liberties at any cost, and the first line of that defense lies in the protection of economic security.

All my films are all my children.

I'd had a belly-full of being subservient. I had to find something else to do, and I did. I went to the animation houses. I went to new fields.

A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had fled for protection, and this, too, while the stars and stripes floated over it.

I've been traveling the world and experiencing different places, and you always discover new things.

Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.

Being compared to the greatest-ever safety is pretty ridiculous. I continue to work toward that, but I'm not there and I know that.