Satan's despair is absolute because Satan, as pure spirit, is pure consciousness, and for Satan (and all men in his predicament) every increase in consciousness is an increase in despair.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.

Today’s ashes are tomorrow’s soil.

Orito banishes all thoughts of Jacob de Zoet, and recalls Jacob de Zoet.

I make jokes because humor is the greatest healing factor that there is.

As long as we let the Word of God be our only armor, we can look confidently into the future.

True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.

Nature...does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.

I think that's somewhat of what the left is feeling now - that maybe I'm alone, and they're not. There are millions of us on the right that feel the same way.

A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.

But where will the Fed find another bubble?

Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.