The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.

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.

Love someone and they're yours forever

History doesn't pass the dishes again.

Honor begets honor trust begets trust faith begets faith and hope is the mainspring of life.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

I write to breathe life back into memory.

She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.

I get up early, but it doesn't mean I like getting up early.

I know sanctification comes not with any particular calling, but with genuine acts of service, often for which there is no specific calling.

It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.