Contentment is not a power that may be exercised naturally, but a science to be acquired gradually.

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it.

Even your little sorrows you may roll upon God, for He counteth the hairs of your head.

Jesus is in the tempest. His love wraps the night about itself as a mantle, but to the eye of faith the sable robe is scarce a disguise.

Winter in the soul is by no means a comfortable season: but there is this comfort, namely, that the Lord makes it.

Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory.

If it pleases Him to bid our patience exercise itself, shall He not do as He wills with His own!

Worldlings pray to the Lord in times of need, when it serves their turn. They cry to Him in trouble, but forsake Him in prosperity.

Meditation puts the telescope to the eye, and enables us to see Jesus after a better sort than we could have seen Him if we had lived in the days of His flesh.

The suppliant, whose fears prevent his words, will be well understood by the Most High.

Neither mislead nor misguide.

When the actions of others no longer matter, then you will have succeeded within your own mind.

Women rule the world

A friend worth knowing tolerates your flaws while a friend worth keeping loves you in spite of them.

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

The only thing I can really offer the Filipino people is my sincerity.

There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.

The real us is pure love, pure light

I'd love the opportunity to do something where I could really give my opinion, my feisty side - it'd be fun!

There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you're in Paris and you already miss it.