When he [the slothful person] is pressed to be diligent, either in his worldly affairs or in the business of religion, this is his excuse (and a sorry excuse it is as bad as none).

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.

My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was glad to draw my breath.

Procrastination at the start and sometimes during the project meant there wasn’t time to execute the plans well enough.

Don’t try to prove to everybody that the reason why you can’t is that nobody could. It’s no excuse. You can break the tradition by being the first person to make it happen!

If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.

All of my employees are having a tremendous problem with Obamacare.

God has enough grace to solve every dilemma you face, wipe every tear you cry, and answer every question you ask.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive

If you're not part of the freaks, you're part of the boredom.

You do not hate anyone you are not capable of loving. Remember that.

Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking and in forms they can comprehend.