The love of our own language, what is it, in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction?

For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love.

Nothing is true but Love, nor aught of worth; Love is the incense which doth sweeten earth.

Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God's willingness.

None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.

We live not in our moments or our years: The present we fling from us like the rind Of some sweet future, which we after find Bitter to taste.

The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one.

Sin may be clasped so close, we cannot see its face.

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.

Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.

We have a tried and tested system of government that in being so flexible exists as a great ghost that no one has dared to conjure into flesh.

Don't shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.

This story is true. Of course, there are many lies therein and most of it did not happen, but it's all true. In that sense it is deeply religious, perhaps even biblical.

What the church is really concerned about is what endures.

Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.

An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.

Fans always ask me to marry them so I'll have a lot of wives

What you have to get is a ocean of love within your heart and to seek that in others also.

Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.

And still everything’s the same, even though I did my best to get as far away as I could.