Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.
To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.
It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.
Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.
Today he wore a burnt-orange shirt, black pants, and a tie that looked like a street fight at the south end of the color wheel.
If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.
Adam was a super being when God created him. . . he had dominion over the fowls of the air which means he used to fly. . . well of course how could you have dominion over the birds and not be able to do what they do. Adam flew into space, with one thought he would be on the moon.