The prayer of one who does not consider himself a sinner is not accepted by the Lord.

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

Above anything, welcome silence, for it brings fruits that no tongue can speak of, neither can it be explained.

Conquer evil people by gentle kindness, and make zealous people wonder at your goodness. Put the lover of legality to shame by your compassion.

Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.

As a handful of sand thrown into the ocean, so are the sins of all flesh as compared with the mind of God.

The man with a heart cannot think about or see creatures without his eyes filling up with tears because of the immense compassion which seizes his heart.

Someone who bears a grudge while he prays is like a person who sows in the sea and expects to reap a harvest.

The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men.

This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.

God requires not the doing of the commandments for their own sake, but the correction of the soul, for whose sake He established the commandments.

... He spoke in the deep tenderness of one about to leave his treasure amid perils and foes, where his remembered words would be the only aid he could bequeath to guide her.

But, of course, one relies on the everyday people who just simply like your music, for whom you may not be a hobby but they enjoy being in your presence at a concert.

Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits.

I don't want to be like anybody else.

You haven't taught until they've learned.

We've got to make sure our younger workers understand that as life expectancy increases, the retirement date for benefits increases also.

He exhaled loudly and raked a hand through the sable brown hair he always kept stylishly messy. "Look, Rose. You don’t have to keep up with the hard-to-get thing. You’ve already got me.

Donald Trump has told me that he is proud of the fact that he finally got Barack Obama to produce his birth certificate.

To learn anything fast and effectively, you have to see it, hear it and feel it.

I look at Bill Clinton, the way I look at Bill Gates. As long as my Microsoft stock is going up, I don't care what Bill Gates does in the privacy of his own home.