If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven.

Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

If you're stuck in the past, you go forward in reverse

I was full of rage. My self-esteem was so low that I actually slept on the floor every night, because I didn't believe I deserved a bed to sleep in.

Everyone should think for themselves. I learned that in a book I bought called 'Everyone Should Think For Themselves'.

Blood streams in sacrifice; yet anguish finds no cure.

A Creator must exist. The Big Bang ripples and subsequent scientific findings are clearly pointing to an ex nihilo creation consistent with the first few verses of the book of Genesis.

I try not to be a jerk. I really do. I try to be nice and cordial.

There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States.

Gentle time will heal our sorrows.

I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.

In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.