All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first.

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.

Excuses are great, they come in handy in life. Except when they come between a relationship.

Not how he died, not what he died of, even less why he died, are of concern, to me, only the fact that he did die, he is dead, is important: the loss to me, to us

The loving are the daring.

At any rate, Daddy usually comes to my defence. Without him I wouldn't be able to stick out here.

In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.

The essence of nostalgia is an awareness that what has been will never be again.

The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.

Congress did not pass last year's 2006 budget proposals. The 2007 budget proposals are very similar, and once again unfairly target agriculture. I expect Congress to reject them again.

I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I needed to tell.

In our prayer and meditation we hope for fulfilling ordinary life.