If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.

We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.

If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.

Sanctification is not regeneration.

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

Allow yourself to be alive every single day of your life.

Remember that churches would be empty ruins without the sinners who transform them into places of life, love and worship.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest and but heal to wear That which disfigures it.

What I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.

Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term.

I'm one of those perverse people who likes being alone. I always took myself to be a community of one. That's what I am comfortable with.

Yes, I’m proud to be indigenous. I’m half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.

Give worshipfully. Our giving is a reflexive response to God's grace. It doesn't come out of our altruism - it comes out of the transforming work of Christ in us.

Wait until next time," he warned. "I'll do things that'll make you lose control within seconds.

I counseled many returning missionaries. I interviewed 1,700 missionaries all over the world. My advice to them is that you should study and prepare for your life's work in a field that you enjoy.