What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.

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.

It was a sweet smile, but it hid menace, like the kind dentists gave.

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.

Holly's theory about the army," Sharon explained. And what is it?" Denise asked, intrigued. Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

sometimes people think they're above the laws the rest of us live by. they're blind to their own imperfections.

Nothing can be so bad as to be displeased with one's self.

Among Negroes we have Negroes who are as white as some white people. Still there's a difference.

With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.

Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.

Some things you don't have to tell. Some things, between sisters, are understood.

I support the constitutional right of American women to consult their own conscious, their own support of partner, their own minister, but then make their own decision about pregnancy.