Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it.

The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one

Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.

Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten.

It is in those times of hopeless chaos when the sovereign hand of God is most likely to be seen.

Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it.

Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God. Prayer is a greater work for God.

The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids you.

Regardless of how large, your vision is too small.

I take one decisive and immediate step, and resign my all to the sufficiency of my Saviour.

Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.

That is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the mesh as strong as our own believing. Our own fears.

In my day the schools taught two things, love of country and penmanship-now they don't teach either.

To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.

I thought I should work more on the idea that you wear a suit or a jacket because of the fun it can provide, because it's a game, because it might even have a sexual quality.

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.

There is no illusion great than fear.

Use the negativity with a space bar. Don't be Empty Trash. @#&$¥£€%*+=[<>] .

I don't even give my scripts to friends because I just feel it's, like, I don't need one more set of opinions.

As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.

Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.