“The most likely man to go to hell is the man who has nothing to do on earth. Idle people tempt the devil to tempt them.”

“Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.”

“There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on H...”

“When your will is God's will, you will have your will.”

“Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread themdigest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make...”

“Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity. ”

“...Nature has its unexpected and unappreciated mercies.”

“Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when its dark”

“She kissed their knife marred bodies, for every act of war has, at its heart, an act of mercy.”

“Paths cross all the time in this world of our, sometimes in the strangest places.”

“Part of what makes roads, trails and paths so unique as built structures is that they cannot be perceived as a whole all at once by a sedentary onlooker. They unfold in time as one travels along th...”

“Paths cross all the time in this world of our, sometimes in the strangest places.”

“This was about more than semantics; it represented a dangerous shift in perspective.Rio was not at war, I pointed out; and even if it were, wars have rules.”

“Rules are for people with the luxury of time.”

“Rules are for those who can't think of a better way.”