I think it takes a larger nature to receive nobly than to give nobly.

All dread those things they don't understand.

... a great many times in this world, the hardest work we are given is just to sit to one side and neither speak, nor act. It is then prayer becomes an unspeakable blessing.

The only reality is the grace of repentance.

The world is always satisfied, it turns out, with countenance it can understand. Indolence and cowardice do the rest. Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence.

If you're still living, you are yet! winning.

Christians should seek after holiness—without which no man shall see the Lord. Let us seek ardently the kind of life that reflects the beauty of Jesus and marks us as being what saints ought to be!

Don't let misery bring you down.

What appear to us to be causal explanations are in fact just stories—descriptions of what happened that tell us little, if anything, about the mechanisms at work.

You never put her in your heart.

I am the farthest thing from a computer genius.

I'm interested in the landscape of the face, the way in which light and shadow fall across the forms. That's really my subject matter.

To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.