The seed of acceptable devotion must come from heaven's storehouse. Only the prayer which comes from God can go to God.

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it.

Even your little sorrows you may roll upon God, for He counteth the hairs of your head.

Jesus is in the tempest. His love wraps the night about itself as a mantle, but to the eye of faith the sable robe is scarce a disguise.

Winter in the soul is by no means a comfortable season: but there is this comfort, namely, that the Lord makes it.

Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory.

If it pleases Him to bid our patience exercise itself, shall He not do as He wills with His own!

Worldlings pray to the Lord in times of need, when it serves their turn. They cry to Him in trouble, but forsake Him in prosperity.

Meditation puts the telescope to the eye, and enables us to see Jesus after a better sort than we could have seen Him if we had lived in the days of His flesh.

The suppliant, whose fears prevent his words, will be well understood by the Most High.

... sometimes love becomes a power game between ambitions that parents have for their children and the ambitions that children have for themselves.

I took a break from horror I made three ghost movies back-to-back-to-back.

In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.

I don’t even have money for a cheeseburger!

There's a ton of stuff we can do to help the economy and help the American people, and the aspirational working class of the American people.

The war has ruined us for everything.

Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.

Our best chance of finding God is to look in the place where we left him.

How does a man know when he's taking the last steps of his life?

When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them - my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a wife, as a lover, as a daughter.