A state of apostasy is worse than a state of ignorance.

Hope for the best, get ready for the worst, and then take what God chooses to send.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

Christ's followers cannot expect better treatment in the world than their Master had.

The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.

It was the greatest honor God did to man that he made man in the image of God; but it is the greatest dishonor man has done to God that he has made God in the image of man.

The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it.

There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

After a storm comes a calm.

Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.

Beware of those who speak ill of others in your presence don't be surprised of what they say about you in your absence.

If you do not ask questions, how can you find the answers you seek?

The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.

Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.

Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.

What the head makes cloudy the heart makes clear

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.

Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God.

Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms and scaring children.

Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.