Many people despise those who spend their health, strength and money for the salvation of others, and call them mad. And yet it is they who will save many and be saved themselves.

The true Christian is like sandalwood, which imparts its fragrance to the axe which cuts it, without doing any harm in return.

Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself

If we do not bear the cross of the Master, we will have to bear the cross of the world, with all its earthly goods. Which cross have you taken up? Pause and consider.

Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life.

Prayer is continual abandonment to God.

From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross.

If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it.

God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful, the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago.

Those who determine not to put self to death will never see the will of God fulfilled in their lives.

Every selfish man, strangely enough, becomes a self slayer

I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.

I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it.

Look at the stars, how they shine and glow, some of the stars died a long time ago. Still they shine in the evening skies for you see, love like starlight never dies

Those who are not very concerned with art want poems or pictures to record for them something they already know - as one might want a picture of a place he loves.

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.

The details of the world in which we live are always secondary to the fact that we must live in them.

We are more capable of turning around our global health crisis than we think.

Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the race, and the nation must go down.

I can't think of a bigger waste of police time than chasing somebody who has said something offensive on Twitter.