True charity is liable to excesses and transports.

To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.

God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls.

We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.

Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice.

Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts.

Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work of piety accomplished?

Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in concealing from ourselves.

There are some sins which are more justly to be denominated surprises than infidelities. To such the world should be lenient, as, doubtless, Heaven is forgiving.

Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity.

Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.

If you want a happy Christ-centered marriage, you must be centered in Christ!

Always be good, but be wickedly beautiful.

I know that God is truth, he holds this still—Beyond me he bears all his free will.

A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.

You couldn't be a racist and live in L.A.; you'd be exhausted.

Faith is the assurance that the best and holiest dream is true after all.

Practice love in your relationships. The key to this is avoiding expectation. It's expectation that makes most people miserable in love - the return on the investment.

You really have to work harder to come up with new ways to play the scenes.

The good news of the kingdom is not freedom from hardship, suffering, and loss. It is the news of a Redeemer who has come to rescue me from myself.

Remember that you are a magnet! Appreciation attracts appreciation!