Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.

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.

Emotions buzz through our beings like busy bees, giving us the gift of living vividly.

Realize that your gift does not belong merely to you

You may be James the American, or Mary the British, or anything else, but before all that, you are a human.

When you look at another person, see them as an extension of your thought or feeling. What you two thought or felt THEN, magnetically connected you two NOW.

Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays.

People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back.

I still think Ned Beatty should've played Don Corleone.

I am always reading or thinking about reading.

Let the RINOs start a third party

Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair.