The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
There is no possible source of evil except good.