There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.
Is the scrupulous attention I am paying to the government of my tongue at all proportioned to that tremendous truth revealed through St. James, that if I do not bridle my tongue, all my religion is vain?
The music of the Gospel leads us home.
Kind words are the music of the world.
Nobody is kind to only one person at once, but to many persons in one.
We cannot resist the conviction that this world is for us only the porch of another and more magnificent temple of the Creator’s majesty.
For right is right, since God is God.
Deep theology is the best fuel of devotion; it readily catches fire, and once kindled it burns long.
We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.
Eternity will not be long enough to learn all he is, or to praise him for all he has done, but then, that matters not; for we shall be always with him, and we desire nothing more.
For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.
God always fills in all hearts all the room which is left Him there.
Love’s secret is always to be doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such very little ones.
Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!
Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.
The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.
They always win who side with God.
For children is there any happiness which is not also noise?
We can exaggerate about many things; but we can never exaggerate our obligation to Jesus, or the compassionate abundance of the love of Jesus to us. All our lives long we might talk of Jesus, and yet we should never come to an end of the sweet things that might be said of Him.
There’s a wideness in God’s mercy Like the wideness of the sea Oratory Hymns.
If our love were but more simple, We should take Him at His word; And our lives would be all sunshine In the sweetness of the Lord.