But your job is to work upon yourself: for this you are chosen; the rest is in the hands of God. He who humbles himself shall be exalted.

To pray is to descend with the mind into the heart, and there to stand before the face of the Lord, ever-present, all seeing, within you.

A soul untried by sorrows is good for nothing.

The invincible weapon against all our enemies is humility.

"Love covers a multitude of sins," (I Pet. 4:8). That is, for love towards one's neighbor, God forgives the sins of the one who loves.

As it is not possible to walk without feet or fly without wings, so it is impossible to attain the Kingdom of Heaven without the fulfillment of the commandments.

The object of our serch is the fire of grace which enters into the heart.

The Lord chose the apostles, that they should be with Him, and that he might send them forth to preach, and to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils.

There is only one way to win a war which has begun: To stop it immediately

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaWisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it.

I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.

I don’t know why I ever helped you.” “Because you like broken things.

In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least severalgentlemen or "squires," there is but one to a seigniory.

Overlapping shapes are a safer indication of depth than is linear perspective.

I can't let things go when it comes to stop painting. It has to be my way.

What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame but something wild to run with.

Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about.