We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
Just because you can afford it doesn't mean you should buy it.
Don't let what others think or say get in your way; their actions reflect on them, not you.
Stop saying yes out of fear about what others will think about you and say NO out of love for yourself!
The way to build your savings is by spending less each month.
In order to create lasting security you must learn to stand in your truth.
When you lose something in your life, stop thinking it's a loss for you. . . it is a gift you have been given so you can get on the right path to where you are meant to go, not to where you think you should have gone.
Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.
Whenever I hear the epistles of Paul read out loud in the liturgy, I am filled with joy. . . If I'm regarded as a learned man, it's not because I'm brainy. It's simply because I have such a love for Paul that I have never left off reading him. He has taught me all I know.
Nothing I do is salacious or provocative or shocking for the sake of that.
Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.