It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus.

The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God’s grace.

Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them.

Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.

If the loss of your fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss.

We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break.

Ah, what a life is theirs who live in Christ; How vast the mystery! Reaching in height to heaven, and in its depth The unfathomed sea!

No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true.

The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and there she may learn the reality and the earnestness of life.

Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee.

The question is not whether you ever gave yourself to God, but whether you are His now.

Your past success is a foundation into future success.

BIGGER THE THOUGHT, DIFFICULT TO CAUGHT, TO SURVIVE IT TAUGHT, WITH HOPE WE FOUGHT, SUCCESS WILL BE BROUGHT.

Childhood is a short season.

I've never formally trained in acting, so I'm very instinctual and visceral with decisions.

I now derive physical and spiritual pleasure from gardening and there is tremendous satisfaction in knowing that I could survive almost anywhere if I had to.

Anyone who says I would never hit a woman hasn't met my x girlfriend.

As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.

All nature ... is a respiration Of the Spirit of God, who, in breathing hereafter Will inhale it into his bosom again, So that nothing but God alone will remain.

As you ramble on through life, brother, whatever be your goal: keep you eyes upon the donut, and not upon the hole.