There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself the other appreciates what others can understand the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent the second good and the third kind useless.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead his eyes are closed.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham and believe whatever is revealed from God though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son and therefore believed notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.

Motherhood is priced Of God at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

Growing up if I hadn't had sports I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.

Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in that he is to be loved and called upon and to be heard in all things.

But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible and the Bible only as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity for in prosperity we forget God.