However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud.

Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

Trust in God for great things. With your five loaves and two fishes He will show you a way to feed thousands.

Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.

By His trials, God means to purify us, to take away all our self-confidence, and our trust in each other, and bring us into implicit, humble trust in Himself.

Somewhere under the stars God has a job for you to do and nobody else can do it.

God listens for nothing so tenderly, as when His children help each other by their testimonies to His goodness and the way in which He has brought them deliverance.

Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

A closed heart opens no mind.

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

Many people have trouble with forgiveness because they have been taught it is a singular act to be completed in one sitting. That is not so. Forgiveness has many layers, many seasons.

Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003

It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can’t have.

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together.

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.

He’s speaking in the tone of voice that everyone uses when they’re about to break you apart. Gentle—kind, even—like they can make the news sound better just by speaking in a lullaby voice.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.