I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.

The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.

It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.

If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.

In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets... Hence true Friendship is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. They can then say, as the blessed souls say in Dante, "Here comes one who will augment our loves." For in this love "to divide is not to take away.

I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily