Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.

If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.

Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.

I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.

Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.

To be filled with God, is a great thing; to be filled with the fulness of God, is still greater; to be filled with all the fulness of God, is greatest of all.

As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.

The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.

On the last day of the worldI would want to plant a tree

I'm not a role model.

Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much.

My first open mic was fantastic. I crushed. And my second mic was as bad as my first one was good.

Life is movement. Once you stop moving, you're dead. Choose life.

There is no question we need higher academic standards and at the local level the rigor of the Common Core state standards must be the new minimum in classrooms.

Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.

Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.

If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently.

To me, nothing is more vibrant than having the power to do something but not having the experience of knowing what's right and what's wrong.