Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him.

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.

The men were always wary of an officer who took form more seriously than function.

No one really knows why humans do what they do.

She maneuvered onto the board, getting into position on her stomach just like he'd taught, and tried not to freak out. She never should have watched Shark Week last year.

And sometimes - to get what you want - you must be prepared to accept the apparently unacceptable.

Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced

I know how important it is to have people who believe in you even when you don't believe in yourself.

At GQ, there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.

I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America.

Everybody is God. Everybody is the devil. And if you don't realize you have both parts, that's what really causes problems.

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.