Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.

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.

Affection is the source of self-confidence, happiness, security, and a comfortable mental state.

Say what you want to say, and let the words fall out. Honestly, I wanna see you be brave!

The next day I had a hangover.I realised that if getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.

If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.

[Y]ou cannot determine either the truth or the right or wrong of anything with a poll. You can only tabulate people's opinions.

Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.

I think it's very interesting for a director that enjoys thrillers and mysteries like I do to have the challenge to do that.

I have a good memory for words, and when I come upon a word I don't know, I remember it, or try to - it's almost like a tic.

Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.

It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]