The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

From morning to night keep Jesus in thy heart, long for nothing, desire nothing, hope for nothing but to have all that is within thee changed into the spirit and temper of the holy Jesus.

If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you.

Joseph has lately endeavored to seduce my wife, and has found her a virtuous woman.

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

The real beauty of a house is always the happiness inside that house!

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

You should be able to criticize and evaluate yourself before others do it. Check for congruity between your defined mission, vision, values and your practiced attitude, behaviour and habits.

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.

[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.

I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.

For what lies inside of man is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In man's inner organism we have an image of the entire cosmos.

Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear.