If we would be angry and not sin, we must be angry at nothing but sin; and we should be more jealous for the glory of God than for any interest or reputation of our own.

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 ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

The worst job I ever had was when I had to try to sell a service for medical waste treatment.

If you've never tried drugs, DON'T. And if you have, pray.

Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.

The problem with fun is we really don't know what fun means at all.

The end never comes when you think it will. It's always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -not understood, but divined.

Centuries ago it may have been difficult for pregnant women and their children to get proper nourishment, probably leading to smaller - and therefore shorter-lived - adults.

I think you use the negative things that happen from the year before - and from other years, too - to spur you to do the things you need to do to take the next step.