The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the shadow-land of life into life itself.

Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces.

Value friendship for what there is in it, not for what can be gotten out of it.

A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise study of the Bible.

Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.

If a man is unable to find the way to Jesus, he ought to be led. It is good work this bringing the blind to Him who alone can give them sight.

No parent ought to punish a child except with a view to the child's good. And in order to do good to a child through his punishment, a parent must religiously refrain from punishing him while angry.

An over-readiness to criticise or to depreciate a minister of Christ is proof of a lack of devotion to Christ.

It is not an easy thing for a parent of today to bear always in mind that every child of his is as truly an individual as he was when he was a child.

Conscience tells us that we ought to do right, but it does not tell us what right is - that we are taught by God's word.

Jesus has never slept for an hour while one of His disciples watched and prayed in agony.

What will a man gain by winning the whole world, at the cost of his true self?

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.

It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.

I would be very, very bored doing light little comedies for my entire career.

the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did.

We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that.

Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of music, pop music, jazz, rock and roll, any combination of music that catches their ear.

A priority is observed, not manufactured or assigned. Otherwise, it's necessarily not a priority.

Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.