People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.

I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else someone who will never love you back, not the way I do.

Keeping demons from this world is your mandate, a mandate from heaven. And a mandate from heaven isn't something you can just ignore.

From the first time I saw you, I've belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me. -Jace

In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.

Love didn't make you weak, it made you stronger.

I've always been told my presence brightened up any room. One might think that went doubly for dank underground cell." (Jace)

And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married...?" His voice tightened. "And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching.

The way he looked at you. I got it then. He loved you, and it was killing him. He won't get over you, Clary, he can't.

Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?

molesting the vampire while he's too weak to fight back, iz? jace asked. i'm pretty sure that violates at least one of the accords.

God is my provider I brag different.

Because they are children and for no other reason they have dignity and worth simply because they are.

Trust the comfy clothes you reach for day after day, your plain, regular, essential self.

A trial is an instrument by which our Father in heaven makes Christians more holy.

I knew it in my bones. That this time was it. I had finally made my choice, and so had he. He let me go. I was relieved, which I expected. What I didn't expect was to feel so much grief.

Life is a short walk. There is so little time and so much living to achieve.

We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed.)

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - IS innately disruptive of “business as usual.” That is WHY it is effective.

I’m blushing at my own stupid, nonsensical, meaningless thought process, which, by the way, nobody knows about except me.

Donald [Trump] has had a long career of using great wealth and power trying to bully others.