It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.

The church changes the world not by making converts but by making disciples.

People who wish to be offended will always find some occasion for taking offense.

We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others.

You have one business on earth – to save souls.

Get on fire for God and men will come and see you burn.

Whosoever will reign with Christ in heaven, must have Christ reigning in him on earth

In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church.

Reading Christians are growing Christians. When Christians cease to read, they cease to grow.

You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.

I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.

In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.

Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future.

I like to knuckle down and get on with my job. I'll make mistakes, I'm bound to, but I'll write them down and I'll learn from them.

Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.

After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger.

I've always loved watching the news on TV. As a kid, I loved watching Walter Cronkite, for some reason.