We cannot expect too little from man nor too much from God.

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.

You couldn't teach kindness, she thought. It was something you were born with. People either had it or they didn't.

I don't know what brings you up here, but to me the town looks prettier and the people look nicer and even the worst of them look almost kind.

The Leadership Seduction of storytelling invites self-pity, exaggerates one's importance, and encourages inaction.

I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.

Hope is a settled state of mind, in which we see the world in its true light, and look forward to our final homecoming in heaven.

I don't have to announce all the women I've slept with.

This is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth.

I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.

I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training.

The job isn't done until you've blamed someone for the parts that went wrong.