I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

Lord, let me make a difference for you that is utterly disproportionate to who I am.

Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God.

I care not where I go, or how I live, or what I endure so that I may save souls. When I sleep I dream of them; when I awake they are first in my thoughts.

Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.

There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul.

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ

I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath.

It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all.

Twitter's designed to reduce the language, directly out of 1984! It's Ingsoc!

When black women stick together, we are the most powerful force in the universe.

The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.

No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.

The press should be the voice of the people, not of party.

That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up.

Success is the enemy of comedy.

Lyrics need to be good, but they don't need to be obvious right away.

We are all servants. The only question is whom we will serve.

I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.