The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ.

What's closest to your heart is what you talk about, and if God is close to your heart, you'll talk about Him.

As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.

We must invite the Cross to do its deadly work within before we can be free.

The heart that is constantly overflowing with gratitude will be safe from those attacks of resentfulness and gloom that bother so many persons.

The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. He has accepted God's estimate of his own life: In himself, nothing; In God, everything. He knows well that the world will never see him as God sees him and he has stopped caring.

We are sent to bless the world, but we are never told to compromise with it.