Growth is the only evidence of life.
All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances.
Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith.
Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.
Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.
When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.
I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.
True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.
We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
How can we understand forgiveness if we haven’t recognized the depth of our sin?
Great things are done by devotion to one idea.