Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

What do I love when I love my God?

For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.

Feminists who accept the claim made in The Book of Genesis, and, that God is a he, need to make their minds up.

I been running up a bill with the devil ever since, and now he's come to collect on the debt.

To sleep! perchance to dream ay there's the rub For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil Must give us pause.

Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.

One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part of that.

Mexico's No. 1 drug lord has escaped from prison and may be headed to the U.S. So Donald Trump was wrong. They ARE sending us their best.

The lens is a tyranny.

…and there, in the background, the sky’s sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words ‘I am’ dissolved into blue peace. He said it. ‘The ocean.

Even dogs and horses have their actions modified by association with human beings; they form different habits because human beings are concerned with what they do.

I'm having so much trouble with writing. Maybe if I help other people, it'll be easier for me.