I have to do two things at once or I get tired.
Night by night I will lie down and sleep in the thought of God, and in the thought, too, that my waking may be in the bosom of the Father; and some time it will be, so I trust.
To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.
With a mind not diseased, a holy life is a life of hope, and at the end of it, death is a great act of hope.
Yes, I live in God, and shall eternally. It is His hand upholds me now; and death will be but an uplifting of me into His bosom.
Selfishness, eager for a heaven of enjoyment, is quite a different thing in the soul from love and purity and truth, yearning together for what is their natural element.
God would never have let us long for our friends with such a strong and holy love, if they were not waiting for us.
We are in an unusual predicament as a global civilization. The maximum that is politically feasible, even the maximum that is politically imaginable right now, still falls short of the minimum that is scientifically and ecologically necessary.
I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.
All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.
The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.