“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.”

Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.

If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Love and do what you will.

God gives where he finds empty hands.

Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.

The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.

Love has reasons that reason knows not.

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

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

If i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect, exactly as they are.

I’m ready to accept the challenge. I’m coming home.

Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it – there is a certain shameful solidarity.

Failure is acceptable. but not trying is a whole different ball park.

You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.

I think my desire to always get better, to always want more, to always be my top critic, and accepting the good and the bad.

It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.