I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.

Every day, God has something to say to you. Even when He seems to be quiet, God is still saying something.

When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'That knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well George, that's more nearly your size.' And he told me.

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.

If God does not open and explain Holy Writ, no one can understand it; it will remain a closed book, enveloped in darkness.

And what is it that preachers do, to this very day? Do they interpret and expound the Scriptures? Yet if the Scripture they expound is uncertain, who can assure us that heir exposition is certain? Another new exposition? And who will expound the exposition? At this rate we will go on forever. In short, if Scripture is obscure or ambiguous, what part is there in God's giving it to us?