Homelife, home teaching, parental guidance is the panacea for all the ailments, a cure for all diseases, a remedy for all problems.

One of Satan's sharpest tools is alcohol, for it blinds and deafens, numbs and manacles, impoverishes and maims, and kills unfortunate victims.

Always keep good company. Never waste an hour with anyone who doesn't lift you up and encourage you.

Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we were to close the doors upon sorrow and distress, we might be excluding our greatest friends and benefactors. Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering, and self-mastery.

In the kingdom, the greater our responsibilities, the greater is our need to see ourselves as servants.

Some of what you write may be humdrum dates and places, but there will also be rich passages that will be quoted by your posterity.

We know so little. Our judgment is so limited. We judge the Lord's ways from our own narrow view.

Self-justification is the enemy of repentance.

God does notice us, and He watches over us. But it is usually through another person that he meets our needs.

Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or the other or both parties to a marriage contract. Someone is thinking of self comforts, conveniences, freedoms, luxuries, or ease. Sometimes the ceaseless pin pricking of an unhappy, discontented, and selfish spouse can finally add up to serious physical violence. Sometimes people are goaded to the point where they erringly feel justified in doing the things that are so wrong. Nothing of course justifies sin.