Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so - but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.

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.

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

If you don't start, you're finished.

If roses were not special weeds would not envy them.

One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing.

Majoring in religion, listening to TV evangelists interpret the scriptures and dictate my offerings-I found my God inside myself-in every moment and piece of matter. Everything is animate.

There are two sides to increasing energy. One is avoiding loss. The other is learning how to gain energy.

We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.

A lot of things in history are timing, and it's very peculiar because in retrospect things [and] people can look more brilliant or necessary than they actually were.

I have been rich, and I have been broke. Some of it is my fault for choosing bad management and making bad investments. But that is life - we all take risks.

In Europe the right wing is bogged down in Nationalism in most cases and still fighting so called Reds.