The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done.

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.

Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.

I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been

An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

I remember our priceless moments when we were close together. But now i have felt it is painful to my soul if i have seen her presence of aura.

She's only a girl. What kind of men are you?''Dead ones?' asked Drith, who yanked the door open and put her sword through Narses' throat.

The road to conservation is paved with good intentions that often prove futile, or even dangerous, due to a lack of understanding of either land or economic land use.

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.

Intellect alone is a dry and rattling thing.

The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second.

Like drinking a cup of tea, all the simple things in life are the real things that make us happy!

Willa Cather said that she write best when she stopped trying to write and began simply to remember.