God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.

We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." I found the following quote by Goethe that can serve as a commentary on these words. "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.