The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.

Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.

That however advanced any man may 'be-in' age or piety, he is still in danger of falling.

The sigh, the groan of a broken heart, will soon go through the ceiling up to heaven, aye, into the very bosom of God.

Justification by faith alone, is the hinge upon which the whole of Christianity turns

Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.

I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.

Feast of the Holy Cross Does not every man feel, that there is corruption enough within him to drive him to the commission of the greatest enormities, and eternally to destroy his soul?

No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.

What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.

My dad is an egomaniac.

I think what happens in the world, and I think it's part human nature and part programming, is we become an emulation of what we see. We become clones of each other.

I'm not a girl anymore, I'm a woman and my heart beats like prizefighter's fists, and I have not stopped yet, I will not stop.

I went to school on the Internet. I was not a cheerleader.

Happy people continuously change; and because they change they become more and more happy; and then more and more change is possible.

He's not only a good player, but he's spiteful in the nicest sense of the word.

Revenge is like a ghost... It takes over every man it touches... Its thirst cannot be quenched... Until the last man standing has fallen.

The impact of the acute angle of a triangle on a circle produces an effect no less powerful than the finger of God touching the finger of Adam in Michelangelo.

Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.