When the opponent expand, I contract. When he contracts, I expand. And, when there is an opportunity, I do not hit - it hits all by itself.

this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.

What is best let alone, that accursed thing is not always what least allures.

Within are shabby shelves, ranged round with old decanters, bottles, flasks; and in those jaws of swift destruction, like another cursed Jonah (by which name indeed they called him), bustles a little withered old man, who, for their money, dearly sells the sailors deliriums and death.

Young people should ponder over problems that might confront them and be prepared to cope with them in a way that their parents, their leaders, and their Heavenly Father would have them cope, that they might keep themselves clean and pure.

Young people especially sometimes feel that the standards of the Lord are like fences and chains, blocking them from those activities that seem most enjoyable in life.

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

I'm a pretty good problem solver.

Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you...and protect me, for today I could betray you.

Even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.

People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.

As a matter of fact, it is often harder to manifest the good that is in us than the evil.