The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Arthur Conan Doyle

You do not own the molecules. They are stardust. They belong to God. What you do own is your soul. Nobody can take that away from you.

Hugh MacLeod

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.

Fred G. Gosman

If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine.And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.

Orson Scott Card

One can write out of love or hate. Hate tells one a great deal about a person. Love makes one become the person. Love, contrary to legend, is not half as blind, at least for writing purposes, as hate. Love can see the evil and not cease to be love. Hate cannot see the good and remain hate. The writer, writing out of hatred, will, thus, paint a far more partial picture than if he had written out of love.

Jessamyn West, To See the Dream,

A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with people who are not satisfied with their lives.

Leo Tolstoy

Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.

John Dryden

However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but a spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you. When the play, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned.

Henry David Thoreau

Everything changes, but beauty remains.

Kelly Clarkson

What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Plato

Love is sacrifice. Love sacrifices itself for its neighbor.

Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica