Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.
Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.
The test of sincerity of one’s prayer is the willingness to labor on its behalf.
There is harm not only in trying to gain wealth but also in excessive concern with even the most necessary things. It is not enough to despise wealth, but you must also feed the poor and, more importantly, you must follow Christ.
The pains of hell are not the greatest part of hell; the loss of heaven is the weightiest woe of hell.
Whatever you may do for your brother, being hungry, and a stranger, and naked, not even the devil will be able to despoil, but it will be laid up in an inviolabe treasure.
Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill.
If you wish to leave much wealth to your children, leave them in God’s care. Do not leave them riches, but virtue and skill. For if they learn to expect riches, they will not mind anything besides, and their abundant riches shall give them the means of screening the wickedness of their ways.
Every trace of the old philosophy and literatureof the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth.
What is it to be a fool for Christ? It is to control one’s thoughts when they stray out of line. It is to make the mind empty and free...
Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.
Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God’s mercy and His love for men. Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.
Endurance is the queen of all virtues.
What greater work is there than training the mind and forming the habits of the young?
What the soul is in the body, let Christians be in the world.
The love of husband and wife is the force that welds society together.
Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
Every time that we sin, we are born of the devil. But every time that we do good, we are born of God.
Slander is worse than cannibalism.