“Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.”

The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it.

Whoever does not know God hidden in suffering does not know God at all.

It’s not what I don’t know that bothers me – it’s what I do know and don’t do!

Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want.

If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.

If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.

If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

A lie is like a snowball: the further you roll it the bigger it becomes.

The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands.

Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.

If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

You can’t get blase about something you haven’t done yet.

A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.

Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him with their actions is what an unbelieving world finds unbelievable.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?