Sincere prayer implies that when we ask for any virtue or blessing, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue.

To be carnally minded is to be spiritually dead

I think it must be apparent to every thinking mind that the noblest of all professions is that of teaching, and that upon the effectiveness of that teaching hangs the destiny of nations.

All good things require effort. That which is worth having will cost part of your physical being, your intellectual power and your soul power. Let us ever keep in mind that life is largely what we make it.

Music is truly the universal language, and when it is excellently expressed how deeply it moves our souls

Gossip bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy.

Communism is not a political party nor a political plan under the Constitution; it is a system of government that is the opposite of our Constitutional government, and it would be necessary to destroy our government before Communism could be set up in the United States....[Communism] even reaches its hand into the sanctity of the family circle itself, disrupting the normal relationship of parent and child, all in a manner unknown and unsanctioned under the Constitutional guarantees under which we in America live.