O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

Into each life some rain must fall.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

Don’t tell me you’re passionate about your job – show me that you’re passionate about helping people like me.

If in doubt, keep quiet. Play safe, talk less, and observe.

Neither angel, nor archangel, nor yet even the Lord Himself (who alone can say "I am with you"), can, when we have sinned, release us, unless we bring repentance with us.

Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

Under budgetary pressure (arbitrary or not) it is truly remarkable how many options one discovers one can do without.

However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power

The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.

Complaining is an insult to God.

Your hold on me is permanent and unbreakable. Never doubt that