There hath not one tear dropped from thy tender eye against thy lusts, the love of this world, or for more communion with Jesus Christ, but as it is now in the bottle of God.

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.

You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.

No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.

If people really see that Christ has removed the fear of punishment from them by taking it into Himself, they won't do whatever they want, they'll do whatever He wants.

The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

If terrorists are already on our southern border, a national-security failure has already occurred.

The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God.

I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out.

A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class.

When I'm wrong it's never meant for you, so don't confuse my love with what I do.

It is not bad living in a monastery. I've done it many times in many lives. But I think you can do a better job outside the monastery, if you have the necessary component parts.

I was single long enough, and when I was, it wasn't about putting notches in the bedpost.

My style is to take something unexpected and make it into a hit. That's what I do.

I try to find my way in the world you know, I try to be somebody instead of just, make money off of everybody.