The means for maintaining perfect love is to accomplish frequent acts of love. Fire is kindled by the wood we cast into it and love is enkindled by acts of love.

The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.

He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.

Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.

He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.

When we have to reply to anyone who has insulted us, we should be careful to do it always with gentleness. A soft answer extinguishes the fire of wrath.

What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.

True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.

There is no one, after God, who loves us as much as this most loving Mother does.

Gnag bends things for breaking, and the Maker makes a flourish! Evil digs a pit, and the Maker makes a well! That is his way.

She put her hands on her hips. "You're not human." "Neither are you." "I beg your pardon?" "Ethereal comes to mind.

Never seen my friends do more push-ups, trying to challenge Cruises' manhood. It was like, I can be strong, too!

If anyone had realized that within 10 years this tiny system that was picked up almost by accident was going to be controlling 50 million computers, considerably more thought might have gone into it.

Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it's enchanting, it's delicious, and I hope it will please you.

We do have a love fest [at home]. It's like, 'I'm making you a cupcake.' Then it's like, 'Well, I made you a cake.' And it's like, 'Well I made you a cake with a cupcake on top and candles.'

Our military thought that they couldn't get to Pearl Harbor, that it was too long a journey from Japan to get there, and they proved us wrong.

We are still living with the consequences of that today in popular Reformed thinking from the likes of John Piper, R. C. Sproul, and Tim Keller.

My wife has a whim of iron.

I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts.