Whether you do your work with notes or without them, do it courageously, earnestly, with devotion; with a glad sense of the greatness of it, and a full consecration of every force and faculty to it.

Always carry with you into the pulpit a sense of the immense consequences which may depend on your full and faithful presentation of the truth.

God forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, Divine pre arrangement; forgives universally, on the grounds of atonement and on the condition of repentance and faith.

We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together.

I disagree with the advice of 'write about what you know.' Write about what you need to know, in an effort to understand.

If you’re a black Christian, you have a real short memory.

No matter how naturally gifted you are, it's your passion that's going to make you better and maybe touch some people.

There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being.

A man too careful of danger liveth in continual torment, But a cheerful expecter of the best hath a fountain of joy within him.

The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said.

Here a pretty Baby lies Sung asleep with Lullabies: Pray be silent, and not stirre The easie earth that covers her.

When you shoot a bow and arrow, you aim at the clouds, not because you expect to hit them, but so that you may reach the distant target on the ground.

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.