If you do not see yourselves and all things as living, moving, and having their being in God, you see nothing, whatever you may think you see.

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.

Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?

Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.

You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

You can never become rich unless you like rich people.

There are two kinds of houses in the neighborhood where I grew up-the ones where the parents stayed married, and the ones where they didn’t.

I want my career to be judged by what I did on the field. I appreciate the honors.

[On Ronald Reagan:] Jane Wyman seemed more upset with her husband's obsession with politics than I. I tried to make her laugh. 'He'll outgrow it,' I told her. To her it wasn't funny.

A man can reach into anything and turn it to his cause. It's not want, or desire, just certainty. Only be assured that whatever you reach into will reach into you in turn.

Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.

Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.