Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.

Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.

Let all things be loved for the sake of Jesus, but Jesus for His own sake.

Wherever you go, there you are.

The Lord bestows his blessings there, where he finds the vessels empty.

God often grants in a moment what He has long denied.

Greater is Your care for me than all the care I am able to take from myself.

At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.

Fear of failure is fiction, face this fact and fear will fall.

Neither every rich person is noble nor miser.Neither every poor person is humble nor wicked.

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

Trust not too much to appearances.

The real difference of interests, lay not between large and small, but between the Northern and Southern states. The institution of slavery and its consequences formed a line of discrimination.

I have often thought, says Sir Roger, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the middle of Winter.

The good Lord doesn't tell you what His plan is, so all you can do is get up in the morning and see what happens next.

I found the candles—atrocious air freshening ones that smelled like fake pine.

Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality.

Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.