Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.

That there is a Devil is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influence of the Devil. For any to deny the being of a Devil must be from ignorance or profaneness worse than diabolical.

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.

Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.

The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.

You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps.

What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony.

That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.

Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.

Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this!

Humans are not made for endless light. Humans need their darknesses.

Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.

Man, I want to be someone's forbidden fruit." "Well, you are pretty fruity.

You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.

I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head. And there is no hurry about it; I shall have, doubtless, a boom after my funeral, Seeing that long standing increases all things regardless of quality.

I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels.

The Jesus I follow is the peacemaker, is one who says forgive your enemies, who worries about the poor, who worries about the poorest of the poor instead of the richest of the rich.

I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

I'm eradicating the word Protestant even out of my vocabulary. .. I'm protesting anything. .. it's time for Catholics and non-Catholics to come together as one in the Spirit and one in the Lord.