If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

From morning to night keep Jesus in thy heart, long for nothing, desire nothing, hope for nothing but to have all that is within thee changed into the spirit and temper of the holy Jesus.

Joseph has lately endeavored to seduce my wife, and has found her a virtuous woman.

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

See it (your situations) with your eyes but direct it to God

Belief and faith are great, but very few people have been led astray by thinking for themselves.

If today was a flavor it would taste like beige...

It was the kind of scream that would be in a horror movie right before someone got chopped up into little bitty pieces.

[Shakespeare} the word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping

I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.

When we trust our brother, whom we have seen, we are learning to trust God, whom we have not seen.

As a man, you got to know how to take it, so I just took it.

A true barometer of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of the day.

Keep calm and carry on.