I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice.
I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!
My vocation to preach on paper.
It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
The idle always have a mind to do something.
Making fun of anyone's size, height, scarring, anything like that equals dumb.
I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
Laughter is just a slowed down scream of terror.