The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids you.

The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one

Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.

Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten.

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

It is in those times of hopeless chaos when the sovereign hand of God is most likely to be seen.

Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it.

Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God. Prayer is a greater work for God.

Regardless of how large, your vision is too small.

I take one decisive and immediate step, and resign my all to the sufficiency of my Saviour.

Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.

It seems like women are always in the kitchen around food and they're serving and they're giving and they're enjoying and it's part of the plentitude of life and the enrichment of life.

We will be fair, just, and compassionate to all, but our greatest compassion must be for our American citizens.

Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere, particularly somewhere as mind-boggingly dull as Earth.

I've always enjoyed interleague play. It gives you a chance to see different clubs, to go to different places. It gives you a good chance to see where you are, where you stand with other teams.

I hate alarms. If they go off I get really tetchy. I hate them. They just get me going, I'm hyper at the best of times, but they drive me mad.

My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things.

Nothing is eternally stable, and even Kansas isn't really in Kansas anymore. The earth is in a constant state of flux.

Many of the world's best-designed cities have been inspired by garden concepts.