“slow it isa slow businessto grow a few wordsto say love”

“For I do not seek to understand in order that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand. For this also I believe-that unless I believe I shall not understand.”

“If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of 10 times.”

“Lord, give me what you have made me want; I praise and thank you for the desire that you have inspired; perfect what you have begun, and grant me what you have made me long for.”

“And what we say - that what He willeth is right and what He doth not not will is wrong, is not so to be understood, as if, should God will something inconsistent, it would be right because He willed it. For it does not follow that if God would lie it would be right to lie, but rather that he were not God.”

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”

“His kisses fed the slow burn of an ever-growing flame.”