None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

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.

Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. "Be brave, " she said. "It's not a duck, is it?

If you do not like anything in a particular book, then sit and discuss it. Banning a book is not a solution. We have to tackle it ideologically.

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

Lacy was a pleasurable fight. It wasn't my hardest fight because I won every single minute of every single round.

He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace.

An ordinary chair is always more comfortable than the king's chair!

Anarchism is "stateless socialism."

The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.

My heroines, more often than not, are the ones who are troubled and resistant.

I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.