Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.

Every gesture and every look he gives me takes me by surprise and causes my heart to stutter.

Peace is not only the purpose of life

...Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question."What do you think? How do you read it?" he asks, again and again and again.

If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older.

At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.

Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived and has seldom been disappointed.

Even with revivals, I dont really pay attention to previous incarnations. I always just go with the script and with the director and am willing to treat it as brand new.

Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?

I do try to experience the emotions as they come, but sometimes it becomes just too much.