Almightiness and wisdom combined will make no failures.

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it.

Even your little sorrows you may roll upon God, for He counteth the hairs of your head.

Jesus is in the tempest. His love wraps the night about itself as a mantle, but to the eye of faith the sable robe is scarce a disguise.

Winter in the soul is by no means a comfortable season: but there is this comfort, namely, that the Lord makes it.

Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory.

If it pleases Him to bid our patience exercise itself, shall He not do as He wills with His own!

Worldlings pray to the Lord in times of need, when it serves their turn. They cry to Him in trouble, but forsake Him in prosperity.

Meditation puts the telescope to the eye, and enables us to see Jesus after a better sort than we could have seen Him if we had lived in the days of His flesh.

The suppliant, whose fears prevent his words, will be well understood by the Most High.

But the English are different, and they don’t know how to be other than different.

I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor.

What we know about Osama Bin Laden is this: he's worth $300 million, he has five wives and twenty-six kids -- and he hates Americans for their "excessive" lifestyle.

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.

For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.

Go out of your way to talk optimistically about everything.

Truth is truth howe'er it strike.

Israel is moving from the realm of poetry to the realm of prose.

China is an attractive piece of meat coveted by all ... but very tough, and for years no one has been able to bite into it.