Character is more than a man-to-his-God humility, for it involves transparency and accountability to others, not merely a private quest for purity.

one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty?one that everything afterward savors of anti?climax.

God works through men. I see nowhere in the Word where God picks an organization.

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.

The Commander in Chief directs that Divine service be performed every Sunday at 11 o'clock...It is expected that officers of all ranks will by their attendance set an example to their men.

You could summarize Jesus' leadership strategy as follows: I'll do it; you watch. We'll do it together. You do it; I'll watch. You do it!

This is teenage madness.

His presence soon restored confidence.

My son accompanied me throughout the campaign and siege, and caused no anxiety either to me or to his mother, who was at home. He looked out for himself and was in every battle of the campaign. His age, then not quite thirteen, enabled him to take in all he saw, and to retain a recollection of it that would not be possible in more mature years.

Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.