I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

Let me revel in this one thought: before God made the heavens and the earth, He set His love upon me.

To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly.

From all the afflictions, Your glory shall spring. And the deeper the sorrow, the louder you'll sing.

Six feet of dirt make all men equal.

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is to acknowledge you are wiser today.

Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest, desperately kind, fixedly upright.