The Lord has many lovers of His crown but few lovers of His Cross.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance.

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

It is a beautiful gift to be a creator.

Examine your self-talk.Never speak to yourselfmore harshly than you wouldto a small child.

It was cool at the rock camp - girls could just be themselves and they could be silly, they could roll around on the floor playing guitar.

If I could be anyone, it would be Brad Pitt.

Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog; but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog.

When I'm on the court, I feel like I'm in my element.

If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.

He who becomes a Prince through the favour of the people should always keep on good terms with them; which it is easy for him to do, since all they ask is not to be oppressed

Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.