God has made all things that are in the world to be our teachers.

It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic.

A graceless pastor is a blind man elected to a professorship of optics.

If we do not touch the heart, we will soon weary the ear.

Because their example is powerful, they're somewhat responsible for the weaklings who copy them.

There will be no fear of your becoming lethargic if you are continually familiar with internal realities.

Every unearnest minister is an unfaithful one.

We may rifle the treasures of antiquity and make the heathen contribute to the gospel even as Hiram of Tyre served under Solomon's direction for the building of the Temple.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are as easy as an old shoe are generally of as lttle worth .

Heart language is logic set on fire.

Cast the burden of the present along with the sin of the past and the fear of the future upon the Lord.

[Ruth’s] disposition is the same all the time—very sweet and very gracious and very charming. When it comes to spiritual things, my wife has had the greatest influence on my ministry.

What you were and what you are now... it's nothing... everything just lies in between...

Alcoholism is a choice... not a life sentence.

She ate--so, so good--cocooned in the harmonic dissonance of a large family, where every sound was distinct yet blended.

Our biggest fear is that 'Food, Inc.' will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward.

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

I think its natural if youre doing a lot of comedy to do a lot of drama, because you have to figure out the real version of the joke.

Love is the best medicine.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

I think entrepreneurship is our natural state--a big adult word that probably boils down to something much more obvious like playfulness.