It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

Is anything besides the mind ever boggled?

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

Rebellion is the mother of wrong actions.

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary Gladly shall I come whenever bodily strength will allow to join my testimony with yours in Olney pulpit, that God is love. As yet I have not recovered from the fatigues of my American expedition. My shattered bark is scarce worth docking any more. But I would fain wear, not rust, out. Oh! my dear Mr. Newton, indeed and indeed I am ashamed that I have done and suffered so little for Him that hath done and suffered so much for ill and hell-deserving me.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Genius is intensity. The man who gets anything worth having is the man who goes after his object as a bulldog goes after a cat - with every fiber in him tense with eagerness and determination.

There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.

Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is 'God is crying.' And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is 'Probably because of something you did.'

Some people are reluctant to consider the future, arguing that it must be left to solve its own problems and to shape its own beliefs. In all right efforts for the future, religion must be given first place. No provision to secure peace or just social principles can be worth much unless the foremost aim be to establish the Kingdom of God. It is not the minds and bodies only of generations to come that have to be remembered, but their immortal souls.

Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the purpose is.

Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page .

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.