A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.

He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.

We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.

The measure of love is love without measure.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

What we love we shall grow to resemble.

The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.

there are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self's sake. 2) Love of God for self's sake. 3) Love of God for God's own sake. 4) Love of self for God's sake.

The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.

The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart.

Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.

Daemon pressed his forehead against mine. "Oh, I still want to strangle you. But I'm insane. You're crazy. Maybe that's why. We just make crazy together.

We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.

The darkness seeps in a little more every day. What have I done? How can I be like this?

All sorrows are less with bread.

You've just got to give yourself time - that's good advice I think. Give yourself time to figure out what you're good at and what you're not good at.

Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.

I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

I feel like I've been a Yankee my whole life.

I broke my heart for every gain, to taste the sweet I faced the pain.