If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind of a good man, he doth not roll them under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

Hope for the best, get ready for the worst, and then take what God chooses to send.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

Christ's followers cannot expect better treatment in the world than their Master had.

The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.

It was the greatest honor God did to man that he made man in the image of God; but it is the greatest dishonor man has done to God that he has made God in the image of man.

The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it.

There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

After a storm comes a calm.

Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.

I still need you. Killer, boyfriend, friend, whatever…I need you in my life…if for nothing else, to show me that it’s OK to be broken. It’s OK for things not to be OK.

When you depart from this world, you must have the confidence that you have left your footprints in the sands of time, that you were among those who fulfilled their purpose

I think about all the people I wish could die instead of you.

In the world of Big Macks Starbucks coffee and oversized SUVS it was business as usual snort and go

Spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time.

If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me.

Mastery of language affords remarkable power.

You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.

Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.

It is the moment when what was chaos is now seen as having a center of gravity. There is a shape where a moment ago there was none.