The beauty of holiness is that which the grave, that consumes all other beauty, cannot touch, or do any damage to.

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.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

You can have the most expensive clothes and still lack style

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

[on Osama bin Laden] He is either alive and well or alive and not too well or not alive.

People will love you. People will hate you. And none of it will have anything to do with you.

Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.

Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

My musical style was developed basically by listening to music. The music I like helped to mold my style. I used to listen to the majority of down south music when I was a shorty coming up.

As your silence grows; your friendliness, your love grows; your life becomes a moment-to-moment dance, a joy, a celebration.

Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.