As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

He took the Who’s feast, he took the Who pudding, he took the roast beast. He cleaned out that ice box as quick as a flash. Why, the Grinch even took their last can of Who hash.

Fools build houses and wise men buy them.

I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.

His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.

I have always wanted to do an acoustic record from the very beginning of my career. I was a coffeeshop artist where everything I did was acoustic.

My biggest role model? Def my Mom and my sisters!

I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.

I woke early like a condemned man to the naivety of birdsong.

Que le Dieu qui nous tue nous vienne en aide! God who kills us, come to our rescue!

If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.