I beseech you to consider that God does not deal by you as you deal with him.

Your mercies are more than your afflictions.

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.

One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.

It is the happiness of heaven to have God be all in all.

Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.

A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.

What is the duty of the circumstances God has put me into?

Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so much.

Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which will certainly grow up to eternal life.

I am discontented because I have not these things which God never yet promised me, and therefore I sin much against the Gospel, and against the grace of faith.

You can leave your marks on things, but the most lasting marks are written in the heart.

Of Teddy Roosevelt and his siblings, the author writes they were, "armed with an innate curiosity and discipline fostered by his remarkable father.

Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.

America cannot afford to defend Saudi Arabia, Japan, Germany, South Korea, and many other places.

One wound is enough to feed the open wounds of the sky.

Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.

Practice not-doing and everything will fall into place.

Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.

That what cannot be repaired is not to be regretted.