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

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.

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.

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.

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?

It's never too late to create!

I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.

I thought we'd die there, quarrels in our backs, you for what you did and me for bearing witness.

I love that [ late-50s Verve recordings] - to me, that's the epitome of vocal jazz. It's my favorite style and era of it.

I think it's inevitable that some of the court's decisions will be found by a segment of the public to be not the right decision or subject to criticism.

We never get enough of falling in love and believing in love.

There are the saints who were raptured at the beginning of the tribulation period - those are the Christians.