Never miss an opportunity to just shut up.
When God has given you your heart's desire, what have you done with your heart's desire?
Faith has this excellency, that it is able to bring life out of death, light out of darkness. It has a kind of creating virtue.
When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come to suffer any cross: 'Oh, that what God does might please me!' I labour to do what pleases God, and I labour that what God does shall please me: here is a Christian indeed, who shall endeavour both these. It is but one side of a Christian to endeavour to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavour to be pleased with what God does, and so you will come to be a complete Christian when you can do both, and that is the first thing in the excellence of this grace of contentment.
Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.
It is a special part of the divine worship that we owe to God, to be content in a Christian way, as has been shown to you.
It is a woman's reason to say I will do such a thing because I will.
I have worked every day since the age of fifteen, supporting not only myself, but also helping a sizable family when needed.
The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.
Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then, do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates?
This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.