It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

Now old Tredgortha's dead and gone, We ne'er shall see him more; He used to wear an old grey coat, All buttoned down before.

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

The truest process of human kind and human life is to ultimatly conquer your fears and live a life worth dyeing for. Because in the end, before that final moment, is it not the moments of your life that flash before you?

Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we are aware of.

The concentration and dedication- the intangibles are the deciding factors between who won and who lost.

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392 Why all this strife and zeal about opinions? Death and life go on their own way, carry on their own work, and stay for no opinions... What a delusion it is therefore to grow gray-headed in balancing ancient and modern opinions; to waste the precious uncertain fire of life in critical zeal and verbal animosities; when nothing but the kindling of our working will into a faith that overcometh the world, into a steadfast hope, and ever-burning love and desire of the divine life, can hinder us from falling into eternal death.

Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Put your creed in your deed.

Nothing is thought rare Which is not new, and follow'd; yet we know That what was worn some twenty years ago Comes into grace again.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - there are consequences.

When I have been indulging this thought I have, in imagination, seen the Britons of some future century, walking by the banks of the Thames, then overgrown with weeds and almost impassable with rubbish. The father points to his son where stood St. Paul's, the Monument, the Bank, the Mansion House, and other places of the first distinction.