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

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.

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.

Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ.

School programs the schooled to type a CV. Life inspires the unschooled to type a business plan.

I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history.

If you drop out you put yourself further away from the goal of life than if you were to keep working.

Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity.

As you can taste a pot full of food with a spoon likewise someone's tounge can tell you about his heart.

Was his body made out of orange rocks and did he at any point yell 'It's clobbering time'?" "I find your attempt at levity inappropriate." "Consider me properly chastised.

I don't know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don't know any criminals.

I think that's really the allure of acting for me. I really want to connect with people.

Simply adored Timothy Schaffert's The Coffins of Little Hope: the voice of Essie, the narrator, is terrific & the last line blew me away.