In all matters of eternal truth, the soul is before the intellect; the things of God are spiritually discerned. You know truth by being true; you recognize God by being like Him.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.

This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.

Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.

What the world calls virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer's cross, and in the power of His resurrection.

To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.

There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

Greatness is bought with time and so is financial prosperity.

Be kind to yourself, so you can be happy enough to be kind to the world.

People will laugh at anything, except their own moronic self.

I believe that you can create genuine fulfillment, make money, have freedom and make a difference for others.

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

Scholars, street knowledge, Carter kids stuck in the projects.

The unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.

I have a love factor with the minorities.

I know that I am a part of something so tremendous, so great, that, if for this reason only, it is holy.

I don't even want to call it God. I just want to call it connecting with something that's greater than I am. So that's the biggest thing from Tennessee - the spirit.