Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers. When men are dull, God will be dumb.

The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.

He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.

The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet.

Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.

Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself.

Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.

Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.

Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.

Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.

Man’s holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man’s greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.

My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.

When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient.

Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.

The craven's fear is but selfishness like his merriment.

I'm hard pressed to give an example on the spot of a president who explicitly spoke of the vindication of history, but I'm confident that there are many such examples.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.

It kept him alive, he was certain; even more, it kept his darkest of his demons at bay.

My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.