If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.

Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.

For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.

Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

... the possibility of pain is inherent in the very existence of a world where souls can meet.

I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids.

Man is now a horror to God and himself and a creature ill-adapted to the universe not because God made him so but because he has made himself so by the abuse of his free will.

What is God's part and what is man's part? God's part is grace. Man's part is faith.

Just so you know, I'm strictly a taco girl. I have tried sausage, but it's not for me." ~ Jolie

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

[Oscar Wilde's Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that's why I guess it's semi-autobiographical.

I do make sure that I've got people who are experts that are helping me make the best decisions possible.

As of late, I am more of a homebody. I like having people over. You can smoke in the apartment. I'm just not into going out so much. The crowd is getting younger and younger.

How do you overcome the negative karmas and problems and misery that occur to people who abuse power? You stop abusing power.

True shamans live in a world that is alive with what is to rationalist sight unseen, a world pulsing with intelligence.

Television leaves no external scars.

The United States reaps the thorns its rulers have planted in the world.