The use of the right word, the exact word, is the difference between a pencil with a sharp point and a thick crayon.

Whatever its future success as a historical movement, anarchism will remain a fundamental part of human experience, for the drive for freedom is one of our deepest needs and the vision of a free society is one of our oldest dreams. Neither can ever be fully repressed; both will outlive all rulers and their States.

The modern challenge to motherhood is the eternal challenge--that of being a godly woman. The very phrase sounds strange in our ears. We never hear it now. We hear about every other type of women: beautiful women, smart women, sophisticated women, career women, talented women, divorced women. But so seldom to we hear of a godly woman--or of a godly man either, for that matter. I believe women come nearer to fulfilling their God-given function in the home than anywhere else.

Godly enthusiasm is not a fire of our own kindling...If a man, however, has caught fire, let me not quench the Spirit by dampening the ardor of his pure devotion. Enthusiasm is not contrary to reason; it is reason - on fire.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.