Mental prayer is, as I see it, simply a friendly intercourse and frequent solitary conversation with Him who, as we know, loves us.

It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.

I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

But always when I was without a book, my soul would at once become disturbed, and my thoughts wandered. As I read, I began to call them together again and, as it were, laid a bait for my soul

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

Come! our world is done:For all the witchery of the world is fled, And lost all wanton wisdom long since won.

In basketball, I always had a first step. A separation step. That works now, too.

Faith isn't knowledge, Rachel. Faith is a tool. Faith keeps us going until we get the knowledge. Faith keeps us striving until we reach the consequences of our most important decisions.

Men have always been permitted to be people. We have just recently made it.

Black coffee’s a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no trimmin’s. Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.

On an independent film, you really learn about pace. You have so little time to do things, that you really have to know your scenes.

While books provided me with some escape from the mental and physical horrors of my early life, they were unreliable. Many times the protagonists suffered terribly and then died at the end.

What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.

And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead. Go to thy deathbed. He never will come again.