The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.

Peace comes not by establishing a calm outward setting so much as by inwardly surrendering to whatever the setting.

It is in the highest interests of the devil to persuade the world that religious people are disagreeable.

Friends, suffering, marriage, environment, study and recreation are influence which shape character. The strongest influence, if you are generous enough to yield to it, is the grace of God.

If you do not pray, everything can disappoint you by going wrong. If you do pray, everything can still go wrong, but not in a way that will disappoint you.

Thinking about interior peace destroys interior peace. The patient who constantly feels his pulse is not getting any better.

A lot of trouble about prayer would disappear if only we realized - really realized - that we go to pray not because we love prayer, but because we love God.

Anyt hing that is found to stimulate hope should be seized upon and make to serve. This applies to a book, a film, a broadcast, or a conversation with someone who can impart it.

The patients who constantly feel their pulse are not getting any better.

What the soul hardly realizes is that, unbeliever or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.

To believe your own thought to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.

The difference between the real winners is how long they take to feel sorry for themselves. My winners feel it... but they come back up and say 'hit me again.'

Dust does rise, doesn't it? And so can I.

I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.

You’re evil, you know that?” I said. She grinned and shook her head. “Chaotic Neutral, sugar.

If you're over 60, arms are not pretty, so I think you should stay covered up. But wear what's appropriate for what you're doing, how you live, and what your lifestyle is.

I got to holler just to be heard.

It's exciting not knowing what I'm doing next, but it won't be long before I'm going to feel like I needed to be doing something, whatever it is.

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.

I like young girls. Their stories are shorter.