Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee.

The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God’s grace.

Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them.

Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.

If the loss of your fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss.

We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break.

Ah, what a life is theirs who live in Christ; How vast the mystery! Reaching in height to heaven, and in its depth The unfathomed sea!

No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true.

The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and there she may learn the reality and the earnestness of life.

It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus.

The question is not whether you ever gave yourself to God, but whether you are His now.

Never allow others to create your world because if you do, they will always make it too small.

Life is really amazing if we know how to fill our hearts with the beauty of life.

Not everything is about you, " Clary said furiously."Possibly, " Jace said, "but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.

Let me not fear the tragedies of life but fear the triumphs.

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

A brave nation fights only because it must; a cowardly nation fights because it can.

If you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with 'secondly'.

How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves?

All day long I add up columns of figures and make everything balanced. I come home. I sit down. I look at a Kandinsky and it's wonderful.