A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.

You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.

Custom without truth is error grown old.

Where our work is, there let our joy be.

A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.

Our way is upward, from the species across to the super-species. But the degenerate mind which says ‘All for me’ is a horror to us.

If we change our thoughts from 'it's too late' to, 'there's still hope', we might see some change in the world.

I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth. If I try hard enough, maybe I can gobble my whole self this way.... I didn't try hard enough to swallow myself.

Don't read their rubbish... Read mine ☺️

Everything that you want in life, is possible. But the reflection in the mirror will always show who is reflecting. One can’t change the reflection without changing himself.

Unconditional Love is our birthright, not judgment or condemnation, and there's nothing we need to do to earn it. This is simply who and what we are.

Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock.

Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun.