It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.

You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.

No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.

If people really see that Christ has removed the fear of punishment from them by taking it into Himself, they won't do whatever they want, they'll do whatever He wants.

The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

Every new friend is a fresh flower with endless beauty, love, and joy.

If you love someone, they leave you. But if you don't love someone, they leave you, too. So your choice isn't between loving and losing but only between loving and not loving.

Every book is unique and it depends what you think, not others.

Dear Elizabeth, you cannot know how much joy you bring to my heart...

My son's 8 he loves his skateboarding and his bike and his snowboard.

The playmakers need to read the game and need to be on the same page as the defenders and the forwards.

We've got some new ways to make slaves here.

The most important thing about winning is believing that you can win no matter who you are playing.

I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder. So I went to art college, and it just gradually happened.