Thoughts mold your features. Thoughts lift your soul heavenward or drag you toward hell. … As nothing reveals character like the company we like and keep, so nothing foretells futurity like the thoughts over which we brood. … To have the approval of your conscience when you are alone with your thoughts is like being in the company of true and loving friends. To merit your own self-respect gives strength to character. Conscience is the link that binds your soul to the spirit of God.

[Liberty] is freedom of choice, a divine gift, an essential virtue in a peaceful society.

I never think of death: I am too busy thinking of life.

The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.

To be carnally minded is to be spiritually dead

Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought.

The greatest need in the world today is faith in God and courage to do His will.