Saints rarely have friends; they are usually hated and derided, for they love and love is always rejected by hard-hearted men....saints do not advertise themselves; good men do not seek out a name in the world....the saints did what they did almost in stealth, asking nothing except that men love God.

God's 'failures' are really man's failures.

Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

I am a Westerner of Westerners!

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

If a nation has not God that nation must fall, but if a nation has God then all the powers of evil, and all the armies, cannot shake its foundations; no, not even if the whole world is arrayed against it.

Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded.