We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.

God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

All that is sweet delightful and amiable in this world in the serenity of the air the fineness of seasons the joy of light the melody of sounds the beauty of colors the fragrancy of smells the splendor of precious stones is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this world.

There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur.

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.

I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.

I am co-counsel and as co-counsel I have the right to represent myself, speak for myself and conduct myself and my trial by myself in my best interests in order of due process.

I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.

Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

I don't think you need a record deal to write songs. You don't need any other reason than you want to do it. It's a far cry from why some people do music today. They make it to order, which is pretty horrible.

I do to keep things sounding fresh. Sometimes just changing the running order of the show is a good idea.

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life.

And so, in case we have contingencies and things that we cannot accomplish within the duration of the space walk, we have a buffer, I mean, in order to be able to complete the... what we want to accomplish.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.

You need the words, you need the script, you need the material, you need the commitment, you need the passion, it's like we depend on writers, we depend on producers, directors depend on us and once things are in the divine order as they happen.

In order to change unwanted habits and actions, it is important to take the time to get to know yourself.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.