An overflow of good converts to bad.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary the evil it does is permanent.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light...

When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.

Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.

If the Lord says to give more than you think you are able to give, know that He will provide for you. Whether things are sailing smoothly or the bottom has dropped out, He is always trustworthy. You c...

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.

Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.