God preordained for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice a part of the human race without any merit of their own to eternal salvation and another part in just punishment of their sin to eternal damnation.

Everyone can relate to love hurt pain learning how to forgive needing to get over needing the power of God in their life.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation but deeds can be done only for God.

And poets in my view and I think the view of most people do speak God's language - it's better it's finer it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

It is common for those that are farthest from God to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

Love it has been said flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other to let their souls blend in a soft whisper so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can as it were creep into God.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air the void or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea so different tendencies various though they appear crooked or straight all lead to God.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news but in hindsight I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.

Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

We kinda look at this as the second or third chapter of our lives. After college most people figure out what they want to do with their lives. But we already know what we want to do in the future and that is to continue to further our business goals.

Our choices are going to determine the future for our children our children's children and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.

The future that I will not live to see is the one my children will live in. That's my immortality. And I shouldn't try to mortgage theirs for my benefit.

One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We're also supporting processes to ensure that the political dialogue among the Congolese themselves takes place so that the people there can decide their future.

We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.