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

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.

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.

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

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.

Optimism: That effervescent, blindingly- bright, perky, chipper,  twittering quality you want to squash out of annoying people.

I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences.

The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply we esteem too lightly 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value.

Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time.

An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.

Real life is crazier than fiction.

Follow the saints, because those who follow them will become saints.

If it's worth listening to, it's worth questioning until you understand it.

All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically

I don't think most people understand acting, even the people who call themselves savvy, even actors.