if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.

The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.

It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.

‎"Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior

Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.

I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene?