If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.

We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.

Sanctification is not regeneration.

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.

The tunnel is lit at long intervals, so in the dark space between each dim lamp, I fear that I am lost until a shoulder bumps mine. In the circles of light I am safe again.

if it works it's obsolete

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

Cantona's expression speaking the whole French dictionary without saying a word.

God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.

The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.

True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.

The most important actions are never comfortable.

I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed.

There really isn't a day when I wake up and DON'T have to be someplace.