The only really fatal element in defeat is the resolution not to try again.

God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.

Let us sing even when we do not feel like it, for in this way we give wings to heavy feet and turn weariness into strength.

Preaching that costs nothing accomplishes nothing.

It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.

If we do not catch men, we are in great danger of losing even the desire to catch them. Our purposed activity is in peril of becoming a dream.

...Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship.

May my life be like a great hospitable tree, and may weary wanderers find in me a rest.

All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice.

It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won...In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into the Presence of God and we fight them there.

But books, when you want to buy them, are costly and, when you need to sell them, valueless.

Magda looks at me as if I've gone mad. Or I've grown up. It's kind of the same thing.

Okay, do not call me Aquaman. That's even worse than waterboy.

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.

The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for man

To accumulate wealth, power or land beyond one's needs in a limited world is to be truly immoral, be it as an individual, an institution, or a nation-state.

3. There are bears and there are small dogs. Be strong like bear! If they take out your teeth, sit on the dogs. Bears always forget they can just sit on the dogs. Sit on the dogs.

I am proud to be part of a species where a subset of its members willingly put their lives at risk to push the boundaries of our existence.

Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know, Where in the purlieus of this forest stands A sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees?