To wash and dress a corpse is a far different thing from making it alive: Man can do the one--God alone can do the other.

When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.

Prayer bends omnipotence of heaven to your desire. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.

A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.

The Devil has seldom done a cleverer thing that hinting to the Church that part of their mission is to provide entertainment for the people, with a view to winning them. Providing amusement for the people is nowhere spoken of in the Scriptures as a function of the Church. The need is biblical doctrine, so understood and felt that is sets men afire.

True humility is a flower which will adorn any garden.

May we live here like strangers and make the world not a house, but an inn, in which we sup and lodge, expecting to be on our journey tomorrow.