Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer

We come to God by love and not by navigation.

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.

While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.

There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other.