“Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.”

I have more respect for the devil than for some preachers I have met; the devil believes the Bible is the Word of God!

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.

The mother of Moses did more for the world than all the kinds that Egypt ever had. Oh, you wait until you reach the mountains of eternity, then read the mothers’ names in God’s Hall of Fame.

The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says “sue them for their dough.”

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

Let’s quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.

I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.

God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.

The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.

I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world’s heart for two thousand years.

I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.

When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

If you have no joy in your religion, there’s a leak in your Christianity somewhere.

The backslider likes the preaching that wouldn’t hit the side of a house, while the real disciple is delighted when the truth brings him to his knees.

I’ve had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.

I wasn’t supposed to make it out of Detroit. I wasn’t supposed to get a scholarship. I was supposed to be [covering] kicks the rest of my life. But here I am. I’m a man playing with the house’s money, and that’s a dangerous man.

You don’t want to hear about how much money I donate to the Boys and Girls Clubs of America or to AIDS awareness or to give out scholarships. You don’t want to hear about that.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.

The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.

The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

Even if you’re born in an urban community it’s always something available to you whether it be a dance class or whether you do really good in school and you can get a scholarship.