One must love God first, and only then can one love one's closest of kin and neighbors. We must not be idols to one another, for such is not the will of God.

Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.

Joy is thankfulness, and when we are joyful, that is the best expression of thanks we can offer the Lord, Who delivers us from sorrow and sin.

Love is sacrifice. Love sacrifices itself for its neighbor.

Everything is defeated before love.

The Lord does not require us to wear a [cassock] — He wants us to be good and kind.

When I understood that neither parents, nor family, nor friends, nor anyone in the world could offer me anything but pain, insults and wounds, I resolved to stop living for the world.

Where there is prayer, the fallen spirits have no power.

Righteousness acts never in its own interest, but in the interest of fellow men.

Attack wins you games, defence wins you titles.

I don't in any way believe that I'm special.

Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.

Assurance encourateth us in our combat; it delivers us not from it. We may have peace with God when we have done from the assaults of Satan.

Speech may be silver but silence is golden. Traders with the golden touch do not talk about their success.

I don't know that I'm going to entirely do cloth diapers. I'd like to be ambitious about it, but in all honesty, I can't say that I will.

The English, the English, The English are best: So Up with the English and Down with the Rest!

in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.

The first element of change is awareness. You can’t change something unless you know it exists.

To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.