For love is of God. He is the fountain, author, parent, and commander of love; it is the sum of his law and gospel.

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.

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

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.

One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.

Life is such a journey on a sea of constant waves and splashing desires.

Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

Fights take a long time to shoot.

If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.

Every single person I know who is successful at what they do is successful because they love doing it.

Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?

Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.

You can't live a lie. You have to follow your heart.