Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.

Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.

As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all things; and that man is not serving God aright, who can only serve Him in his own self-chosen way.

In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.

If I were a seagullI wouldn't have to stick aroundIf people argued- I would fly off, swerve, wheel, dip, scream.a thousand wings of company if I have friendstwo strong wings of my ownIf I don't

When you’re given the gift of truth, you spend a lot of time trying to tone it down because it is already offensive enough.

I look into my glass, And view my wasting skin, And say, 'Would God it came to passMy heart had shrunk as thin!

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

I'm sorry you leftists, you're not the only people whose motives are pure.

Well, I've been in a few car wrecks.

We all know that the people we love are mortal, we all know we’re mortal, we know it’s going to end; you cannot prepare yourself for it.

Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.

It's motivation. Some people are gifted at specific things, but I had to develop. The thing I'm most talented at is the ability to learn.

Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.