It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one

Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.

Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten.

Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it.

It is in those times of hopeless chaos when the sovereign hand of God is most likely to be seen.

Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it.

Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God. Prayer is a greater work for God.

The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids you.

Regardless of how large, your vision is too small.

I take one decisive and immediate step, and resign my all to the sufficiency of my Saviour.

But you can not buy what doesn't belong to you.

Enlightenment is the moment when you are most alive and most compassionate.

I really have no idea what the French think of my characters, or why The Devil All the Time did so well there.

The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow.

Sometimes (at least in principle) God might allow some evil because doing so will prevent a greater evil, and sometimes He might allow evil because it will produce a greater good.

There are people out there who pay their hard earned money to see a good show and people who work 9 to 5 and they saved their money and they want to see the best show possible.

In man, reason quickens and guides feelings; in brute, the soul lies ever dormant.

...those who love suffer when who they love suffers.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

Meditation is a tool for helping us accept the profound fact that everything changes all the time.