Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.

If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.

Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.

I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.

Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.

To be filled with God, is a great thing; to be filled with the fulness of God, is still greater; to be filled with all the fulness of God, is greatest of all.

As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.

The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.

But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.

You don't burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored.

Now is the best time to start becoming the person we eventually want to be—not only 20 years from now but also for all eternity.

Life already has so many boundaries and pressures - why add more in the garden?

Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond.

[Lincoln in the Bardo] is not a long book. And that meant I could obsess over it and live in it both backwards and forwards and hyper-control everything.

Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.

You can't fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name.

It's something I always tell myself: 'You need to calm the f--k down. You don't want to constantly be a GIF.

A new-born Government must shine and astonish - the moment it loses its éclat it falls.

Few can remember clearly when innocence came to a sudden end, the moment at which we ask for the first time: Am I loved?