“Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.”

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.

Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.

God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.

God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.

Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.

Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.

We speak, but it is God who teaches.

We speak, but it is God who teaches.

Put no faith in salvation through the political order.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.

When the darkness closes in, push back.

How tremendously brave to be shattered in a way that makes stained-glass windows from the pain.

Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.

We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.

It isn’t what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it’s what we say to ourselves about what happens.

Somethings that break you end up healing you.