Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie.

What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.

The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel that contradicts the written Word is ungodly counsel. Blessed is the man that walketh not in that.

Granted, not all uneducated women are prostitutes, and, not all prostitutes are uneducated. However, where building a family is employment, an uneducated woman's womb is her diploma.

I have a rule: before I can throw anything out, I have to write down five possible uses for it. This stretches my mind and keeps it nimble - just like stretching exercises do for my body.

Far be it for me to imagine that Zion contains none but Calvinistic Christians within her walls, or that there are none saved who do not hold our views

A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.

I think in between where you are and where you want to be is a sea of reasons why you can't get there.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

Faith embraces itself and the doubt about itself.

Vanity, in a fairy tale, will make you evil. Vanity in the real world will drive you nuts. Vanity makes you say things like “I deserved a better life than this.

I had almost nothing published until I had something published in Sports Illustrated. I started there as a fact-checker two weeks after I got out of college and was there for almost 20 years.