“My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.”

It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.

Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.

Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.

For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”

To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.

Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.

Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!

Hope is a passion for the possible.

Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory.

Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection

The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.

I am convinced that God is love.

Work without love is slavery.

Faith. Trust. and Pixie Dust.

Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.

Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible.

Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.