Let me implore the reader to try to believe, if only for a moment, that God, who made these deserving people, may really be right when He thinks that their modest prosperity and the happiness of their children are not enough to make them blessed: that all this must fall from them in the end, and if they have not learned to know Him they will be wretched. And therefore He troubles them, warning them in advance of an insufficiency that one day they will have to discover. The life to themselves and their families stands between them and the recognition of their need; He makes that life less sweet to them.If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him, and come to Him because there is 'nothing better' now to be had.

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

Ouida

In wine there is truth

Roman Proverb

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

Huston Smith

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Coco Chanel

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

Henry Ward Beecher

What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.

Osho

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

Markus Zusak

I am ready to meet God face to face tonight and look into those eyes of infinite holiness, for all my sins are covered by the atoning blood.

R. A. Torrey

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

Voltaire

They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.

Joseph Joubert

It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition.

Frank Black

Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, what's left of them.

Roland Barthes