If we grow wiser and more learned in our intercourse with wise and learned persons, how much more will we gain in our inner life by communing with God in prayer.

The Christian life, then, is a battle, so sharp and full of danger that effort can nowhere be relaxed without loss.

I beseech Christ for this one thing only, that He will enable me to endure all things courageously, and that He break me as a potter’s vessel or make me strong, as it pleases Him.

Christ, having sacrificed himself once, is to eternity a certain and valid sacrifice for the sins of all faithful.

Everything that is true is God's word, whoever may have said it.

Even if we were not sinful by nature, the sin of having private property would suffice to condemn us before God; for that which he gives us freely, we appropriate to ourselves.

Happiness is being at home your own skin and being able to occupy your life.

Many self-leaders lead the world even by being invisible. The world learns from them without sitting in their classrooms.

There's no point in being committed to a vision if you're not equally committed to making it a reality.

I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.

Happy is harder than money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn't got money.

God's message extends beyond borders. Anyone in the world can learn to forgive those who have injured them, however great or small that injury may be.

If you dream and you believe, you can do it.

The reference-points pictures should be shot and taken off one's system. But don't follow that always, create you own points

There's a great universe just next door.

I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.