Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

From morning to night keep Jesus in thy heart, long for nothing, desire nothing, hope for nothing but to have all that is within thee changed into the spirit and temper of the holy Jesus.

If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you.

Joseph has lately endeavored to seduce my wife, and has found her a virtuous woman.

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

God willl the way.

Science is great for us. But for someone who sees the human evaluation for more than one million years, science is just a one instant and younger than a baby.

It's clever but is it art?

There are more important things than outward appearance. No amount of makeup can cover an ugly personality.

Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.

Do you know something? The minute that blood sacrifice was accepted, Jesus was the first human being that was ever born again. Now that was real - it happened when he was in Hell.

I never suspected that we or any one person or program can create Serena Williams or John McEnroe or Pete Sampras.

At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates.

Since God is infinite he should be infinitely interesting as well.

You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away?