Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God.

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

The more you say, the less people remember.

The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy the power of the final dying.

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.

How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.

Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid

The trouble with straw men is it only takes a single match to set them ablaze.

I ain't looking to compete with you, beat, or cheat, or mistreat you, simplify you, classify you, deny, defy, or crucify you. All I really want to do is, baby, be friends with you.

The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.

Films portraying successful black people getting married are great, but films that only show one aspect of our culture, bother me.

If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.

When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.

All it takes is one idea to solve an impossible problem.

There seems to be no air in the air she breaths.

After you plant a seed in the ground, you don't dig it up every week to see how it is doing