The question is not whether you ever gave yourself to God, but whether you are His now.

The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God’s grace.

Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them.

Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.

If the loss of your fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss.

We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break.

Ah, what a life is theirs who live in Christ; How vast the mystery! Reaching in height to heaven, and in its depth The unfathomed sea!

No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true.

The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and there she may learn the reality and the earnestness of life.

Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee.

It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus.

Close your eyes, and with Jesus, journey back through your day. As you do, confess sin as you see it...

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.

Wolves go after a wounded deer, it is the nature of the beast.

The most powerful person in your life is the one that knows all your secrets and all your lies.

The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.

We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural.

Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.

All you need to know is that I have an old enemy pretending to be me. (Acheron) Why? (Talon) Well, it obviously isn’t to be nice to me and win over my friends, now is it? (Acheron)

I don't like the saying keep your friends close and enemies closer. I want my enemy on a different planet.