Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.

This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.

Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.

What the world calls virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer's cross, and in the power of His resurrection.

To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.

There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

Maybe you’re worried that I won’t seduce you?

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

We are on dangerous terrain when government picks winners and losers in the economy by subsidizing favored products and industries.

The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.

I'm going to be the Will Smith of the NBA.

The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.

What could not be denied was that in vast segments of the animal world natural selection of the most qualified individuals took place not by competition for females but by competition for space.

Time is the greatest remedy for anger.

A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.