Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good, and partaking of God's holiness.

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.

Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.

No mark survives this place: you too will yieldto unmemory.

High tech needs to be complemented by high touch.

People generally despise where they flatter.

There's life and death in every email.

Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?

The aim of academic trade theory is to tell students, "Look at the model, not at how nations actually develop." So of all the branches of economic theory, trade theory is the most wrongheaded.

My family is awesome.

To hit someone means to adopt his point of view.

Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it.