“As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.”

Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.

I sing the progress of a deathless soul.

Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.

To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.

If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.

Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!

As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.

Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.

Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity

True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.

O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.

No man is an island unto himself.

To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.

In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.

I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.

We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it’s a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.

I don’t have any extraordinary gifts. I’m just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

Courage is the gift of character

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

Go and show love to everyone, because your life is a precious mission: it is not a burden to be borne, but a gift to offer.

I’m so lucky to be in the position to give. It’s really a gift to give.

You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.