Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.

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.

maybe silent hurting is the new Mid-Western love

I cannot help, but when danger is at hand remember always that I am here to stand -- or fall -- with you.

Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Don't think. Get out of your head. Stop planning and just go.

You obviously can't cast Brad [Pitt] as an everyman guy because he just brings way too much baggage.

The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.

I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.

I was able to put something back. I was able to be of help to [Frank Sinatra] when he needed my help - and he did need somebody's help.

A true initiation never ends.