When I had forgotten God, yet I then found He had not forgotten me. Even then He did by His Spirit apply the merits of the great atonement to my soul, by telling me that Christ died for me.

The child that never learns to obey his parents in the home will not obey God or man out of the home.

Help me, Lord, to remember that religion is not to be confined to the church... nor exercised only in prayer and meditation, but that every where I am in Thy Presence

There are two things to do about the gospel. Believe it and behave it.

I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more time in mere recreation in one day than I spent in private religious devotions.

I am content to fill a little space if God be glorified.

He is so infinitely blessed, that every perception of His blissful presence imparts a gladness to the heart. Every degree of approach to Him is, in the same proportion, a degree of happiness.

Sometimes I think of Paris not as a city but as a home.

Like Lincoln said: "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong," and I feel the same way about the leftist dismantling of the West. If that's not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

No computer is ever going to ask a new, reasonable question. It takes trained people to do that.

Some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for while others can get it without any effort at all.

Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away from the experience wondering if you will ever be able to listen to their music again.

When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction.

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

If you find yourself worrying, go outside, take three breaths, address a tree and quietly say, 'Thank you.' If you can't find a tree, a dandelion will do... Nature is magic.

Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.