It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer.

Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.

Woman does not possess the image of God in herself but only when taken together with the male who is her head, so that the whole substance is one image. But when she is assigned the role as helpmate, a function that pertains to her alone, then she is not the image of God. But as far as the man is concerned, he is by himself alone the image of God just as fully and completely as when he and the woman are joined together into one.

Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.

They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.