“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.”

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.

The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.

What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.

In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.

Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.

He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.

Life is not fair, but we can choose to be fair humans even if life or other humans choose to be unfair to us.

The people I know that have the hardest time keeping it together emotionally are people that don’t workout.

Everything is going to be alright, only if you want it to be.

We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

This heaviness is too much for one soul.

The rain that’s been so heavy, is only a reminder of the harvest that’s coming.

I ache to know how it feels to be without having a weight on my soul.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.