He who knows how to teach a child is not competent for the oversight of a child's education unless he also knows how to train a child.

The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the shadow-land of life into life itself.

Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces.

Value friendship for what there is in it, not for what can be gotten out of it.

A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise study of the Bible.

Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.

If a man is unable to find the way to Jesus, he ought to be led. It is good work this bringing the blind to Him who alone can give them sight.

No parent ought to punish a child except with a view to the child's good. And in order to do good to a child through his punishment, a parent must religiously refrain from punishing him while angry.

An over-readiness to criticise or to depreciate a minister of Christ is proof of a lack of devotion to Christ.

It is not an easy thing for a parent of today to bear always in mind that every child of his is as truly an individual as he was when he was a child.

Conscience tells us that we ought to do right, but it does not tell us what right is - that we are taught by God's word.

Our relation to books is a shadowy space haunted by the ghosts of memory, and the real value of books lies in their ability to conjure these specters.

My main nurturing instinct toward children is mild sadism--picking them up and threatening to drop them--which is why I am a good uncle but would make a poor father.

We can all learn from our failures. What I've learned is how much it hurts to fail.

The goal of evolution is self - conquest

I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed.

I don’t think we’re an animal that was built to be happy; we are an animal that was built to reproduce.

God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.

If what you are doing is worth doing, hang in there until it is done.

It's better to have three broken engagements than three divorces.

Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.