Man takes a great deal of pains to heap up riches, and they are but like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread.

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.

I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.

Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.

In fact, [Donald's Trump] cavalier attitude about nuclear weapons is so deeply troubling.

A lot of times, people send me emails, and then I forget about them, or I never respond to them, or I respond to them weeks later.

Comparisons are easily done, once you've had a taste of perfection

But possibly I am something more than I suppose myself to be.

One is punished by the very things by which he sins.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack