It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.

I have such hatred of divorce that I prefer bigamy to divorce. Anyway, I think we should see other people.

...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil.

You see then, that Diatribe truly possesses a free choice in her handling of Scriptures, so that words of one and the same type are for her obliged to prove endeavor in one place and freedom in another, exactly as she pleases.

The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.

There are some of us who think to ourselves, 'If I had only been there! How quick I would have been to help the Baby. I would have washed His linen. How happy I would have been to go with the shepherds to see the Lord lying in the manger!' Why don't we do it now? We have Christ in our neighbor.

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.