The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
It is a fact often observed that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion who cannot write well under other circumstances.
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.
Thunder is good thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does the work.
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God not from government.
Motherhood is priced Of God at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.
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.
The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.
God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.