Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.

He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.

We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.

The measure of love is love without measure.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

What we love we shall grow to resemble.

The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.

there are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self's sake. 2) Love of God for self's sake. 3) Love of God for God's own sake. 4) Love of self for God's sake.

The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.

The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart.

Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.

I have this rage that I can't explain. It's sad.

...if good is defined as something else, it is then impossible either to prove that any other definition is wrong or even to deny such definition.

Dear girl, it will be a very long road if you spend more time looking backwards than forward.

The sun does not rise when you need it most. You rise instead.

Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.

You don't have to feel bad to act kindly. Love doesn't stand by, it moves with the speed of clarity.

Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.

The more wants we have, the further we are from God, and the nearer we approach him, the better can we dispense with everything that is not Himself.

The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

I have so many playlists full of Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown.