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 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!

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.

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

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

All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.

Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.

It was stealing her breath, imbecile. Go get a towel." -Christophe, Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow

In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.

It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things, turning-point things, can be simple. ("For The Rest Of Her Life")

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?

I've experienced many hardships‚ but mentally‚ I've always been older‚ and that reflects in my actions‚ too.

But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.

The very flowers are sacred to the poor.