Mary heard God's word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She kept God's truth in her mind, a nobler thing than carrying his body in her womb.

Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.

I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in that for which they have exalted themselves.

Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.