If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don’t buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

I’m a Christian by choice.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

Heaven means to be one with God.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell – fantastic.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

If I had any talent that God could give me, I would be a great diva.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

When you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn’t. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

The truth is lived, not taught.

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.