Man proposes, but God disposes.

If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance.

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things; give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest.

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.

Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement.

Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem?