Those that abide in Christ as their heart's desire shall have, through Christ, their heart's desire.

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.

A single thought, he considered, could do all sorts of harm. Harm to what, he wasn't sure, but he identified it as harm.

Rejection is simply redirection to the greatness awaiting for you.

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone.

People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end.

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.

I've always thought of myself as an African-American comedian, African-American man, everything.

Karate-Do is a lifetime study

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.