If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it.
Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are.
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.
Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you That you may be my poem I whisper with my lips close to your ear I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.
Every maker of video games knows something that the makers of curriculum don't seem to understand. You'll never see a video game being advertised as being easy. Kids who do not like school will tell you it's not because it's too hard. It's because it's--boring
It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but reaches not the affections.
It's hard to rest knowing that millions of people merely carry on religious traditions but don't actually reach God.