Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.

You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.

No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.

If people really see that Christ has removed the fear of punishment from them by taking it into Himself, they won't do whatever they want, they'll do whatever He wants.

The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.

Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.

It is much easier to pull down a government, in such a conjuncture of affairs as we have seen, than to build up, at such a season as the present.

When you first are in front of the camera as a young person, you'd be surprised at all the insecurities you can get.

I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way

Persons drinking coffee, as a general rule, eat less, though coffee, and also tea, have little direct food value; but they retard the waste of the tissues, and so take the place of food.

What do you want from me?" he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More.

A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.

Let thy words be few when in the midst of many.