Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.
A man without God is not like a cake without raisins; he is like a cake without the flour and milk; he lacks the essential ingredients.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace without soul peace.
We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child’s mind, he does not understand teaching.
There are no planes in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down.
A woman never tells you why she loves; she just tells you how she loves.
Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
To create the world cost God nothing; to save it from sin cost His Life Blood.
Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
All our anxieties relate to time.
Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive.
One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome.
The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.
Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason.
Facts themselves do not give knowledge.
Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning.
Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.