What use is it for me to force my nature? / For my nature shall always remain / What it is and conquer what belongs to it, / However men may narrow its path.

even if you do the best you can in all things, your human nature must often fall short; so entrust yourself to God's goodness, for his goodness is greater than your failures.

Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter.

Love has seven names, / Which, as you know, are appropriate to her; / Chain, light, live coal, and fire - / ... dew, living spring, and hell.

May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.

Do good under all circumstances, but with no care for any profit, or any blessedness, or any damnation, or any salvation, or any martyrdom; but all you do or omit should be for the honor of Love.

love is that burning fire which devours everything and shall never, never cease in all the endless ages to come.

For this is love's truth; she joins two in one being, makes sweet sour, strangers neighbors, and the lowly noble.

Take care, you who wish / to deal with names / for love. Behind their sweetness / and wrath, nothing endures. / Nothing but wounds and kisses.

I wish to devote all my time / To noble thoughts about great Love.

The soul who is most untouched is the most like to God.

Hope is the grace of a happy heart.

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

Transformations don't scare me: it thrills me to become the polar opposite.

Jesus makes large claims for his heavenly father but never mentions that his mother is or was a virgin, and is repeatedly very rude and coarse to her when she makes an appearance.

Apparently it'll all settle down and they'll forget about it soon.

The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.

Dance like nobody's watching.

The true gospelstands before the throne of God declaring, 'Jesus did it all.'

A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.