Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

The little mutton-chopped man interrupted them to point out that in his opinion good was not the avoidance of evil, but something more positive than that: it was making the world a better place.

You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.

Don't worry about things you cannot alter

It's not a problem that we're sinners; it's a problem that we aren't ashamed of our sin and don't seek forgiveness.

If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.

Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession.

If you're first, no one will ever remember. If you're wrong, no one will ever forget.

Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience.

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

How can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance.