Saying and doing are two things.

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 remember three years ago looking into the entrance pool of Julia’s stately domus and finding I was beautiful.

people in new york are authorized by convention to snoop around and mentally measure and pass comment on any real estate they're invited to step into.

Gold begets in brethren hate Gold in families debate Gold does friendship separate Gold does civil wars create.

It's what you do that makes your soul.

Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since.

One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.

(Yes teenage boys who are fine always cry on their mothers’ shoulders until they leave a snot trail.)

The job of an editor is to ensure a consistent voice.

Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.

Talking is what I do, but listening is my job.