“Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.”

I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.

We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.

If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.

To sing is to pray twice.

He that is jealous is not in love.

For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.

I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.

Truth is not private property.

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime.

See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.

The last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming. Contrary to all the theories that they are expounding, there should have been warming over the last 15 years. It hasn’t happened.

But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.