Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.

You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.

No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.

If people really see that Christ has removed the fear of punishment from them by taking it into Himself, they won't do whatever they want, they'll do whatever He wants.

The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist

Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation.

A tiny thread can pass through the tiniest hole of the needle, just if you intend to sew.

A statesman is an easy man He tells his lies by rote A journalist makes up his lies And takes you by the throat So stay at home and drink your beer And let the neighbours vote.

Democracy will defeat the economist at every turn on its own genre.

I think it's critical that we return national security issues to the center of the overall political debate in America.

I wasn't like most girls.

Dating is about grand romantic gestures that mean little over the long term. Marriage is about small acts of kindness that bond you over a lifetime.

Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.