The downhill path is easy, but there's no turning back.

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing.

Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.

Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.

We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?

My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit.

Choose love not in the shallows but in the deep.

What is the beginning? Love. What is the course. Love still. What the goal. The goal is love.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

Change happened and you thought it was forever, and immediately there were all the enemies of that change making common cause and meeting in the cloakrooms.

To me, Calvinism means the placing of the eternal God at the head of all things.

When I tell somebody to do something I'm not going to get a lobbyist calling me the next day to say please don't do that even though it's good for America.

I wouldn't have a nose job. I like my nose fine.

Nothing scares me but God.

When I am really angry, I clam up, go cold.

She now knew her death was inevitable, and with that acceptance came liberation. The courage of the condemned.

The Proverbs 31 woman is not the model of a perfect woman. She is the model of a committed woman under God.

Allow not nature more than nature needs.