Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?

If joining IBM was commitment, not employment, and the company engaged in something more than business, it had a right to demand of its men unconditional loyalty, Watson believed.

Prayer is the offering up of our desires to God in the name of Christ, for such things as are agreeable to his will. It is an offering of our desires. Desires are the soul and life of prayer; words are but the body; now as the body without the soul is dead, so are prayers unless they are animated with our desires.

If you don't genuinely like your customers, chances are they won't buy.

The more we enjoy of God, the more we are ravished with delight.

The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains.

Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.