“I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence...” — Francois Rabelais Quote

“I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.”

“When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.”

“How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?”

“Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.”

“Misery is the company of lawsuits.”

“Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.”

“For our people, butterflies are a symbol of hope. It's said that if you capture one in your hands and whisper your dreams to it, it will carry them up to the heavens so that the wish can be granted.”

“Nothing but a symbol? People die for symbols. People have hope because of symbols. They're not just lines. They're histories, cultures, traditions, given shape.”

“I hope not to define myself by suffering.”

“At what point in our lives do we stop blurring? When do we become crisp individuals? What must we do in order to end these fuzzy identities - to clarify just who it is we really are?”

“Life carried on. Much as it always had.”

“The nature of the enemy's warfare in your life is to cause you to become discouraged and to cast away your confidence. Not that you would necessarily discard your salvation, but you could give up your hope of God's deliverance. The enemy wants to numb you into a coping kind of Christianity that has given up hope of seeing God's resurrection power.”