The iron bolt which so mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in gloomy prison, needs a heavenly hand to push it back.

When your will is God's will, you will have your will.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.

Let your cares drive you to God. I shall not mind if you have many of them if each one leads you to prayer. If every fret makes you lean more on the Beloved, it will be a benefit.

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

O child of God, be more careful to keep the way of the Lord, more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory, and you will see the loving-kindness and the tender mercy of the Lord in your life.

Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.

Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that!

Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

The world must know what happened, and never forget.

Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

There are people who will say that this whole account is a lie, but a thing isn't necessarily a lie even if it didn't necessarily happen.

The reflexive allergy to L.A. that a lot of New Yorkers have, I feel like it's kind of nonsense.

Okay, we're going to land somewhere safely, don't worry.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.

Politicians are simply reflections of the public.