It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers that we may not unsay them in our practice.

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.

One heroic act doesn’t make a man trustworthy. What if he decides to turn his blade on you?

Whether something is wonderful or horrible, the most harmful thought we can think is “Will this last forever?

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

Our job is to make the fans happy. When we win, 45,000 people go home happy. When we lose, it not only affects them, it affects their cats.

Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as if no matter what I do, what will come has already been fixed.

The title race is between two horses and a little horse that needs milk and needs to learn how to jump.

I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks that he has found the truth.

I've always been baffled by how much we over-rate the statistically insignificant differences that separate competitors at the top end of the distribution.

I fought for the values of responsibility, and I'm not a man who does not accept his responsibilities.

I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'