... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit in which no man gets at truth.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.

This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.

Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.

What the world calls virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer's cross, and in the power of His resurrection.

To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.

There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

Get down on your knees and thank God you are on your feet.

There is strength in numbers, but organizing those numbers is one of the great challenges.

The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

I didn't go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count - the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position.

We [The United States] should be prepared to launch a pre-emption strike against Iran to eliminate their nuclear capability.

When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.

Last year my wife ran off with the fellow next door and I must admit, I still miss him.

India is a youthful country. A country with such a major percentage of youth has the capability to change not only its own, but the fate of the entire world.

In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.