The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride; and maiden's souls are such.

You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.

Custom without truth is error grown old.

Where our work is, there let our joy be.

A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain

Every chance worth taking will make you a little scared. That means you're taking a risk. And where there is risk, there is reward.

Truth is so rare. I wonder why it is and where you are?

I don't think you can decide how famous or not you become.

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

Yes, the past is another country, but one that we can visit, and once there we can bring back the things we need.

In the US, the problem is primary and secondary education. We've had such an increase in inequality because a quarter of American kids don't finish high school!

As a teenager, you have so much energy and hormones and you feel powerless in your life.

There is a buddhist proverb which I like a lot. It says: "Every body deserves mercy". That means that every body is holy.

What you focus on grows. What you concentrate on is what you see more of in your life.

If design is the first signal of human intention.