English Quotes

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.

I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

Another fine mess you've gotten me into.

If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.

If anyone at my funeral has a long face, I'll never speak to him again.