The greatest art in life is to believe in Christ. That art is learned only in the Holy Spirit's school.

God has given you your child, that the sight of him, from time to time, might remind you of His goodness, and induce you to praise Him with filial reverence.

My God, help me always resolutely to strive, and, through life and death, to force my way unto Thee.

O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.

Never have I greater reason for suspicion that when I am particularly pleased with myself, my faith, my progress, and my alms.

It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.

My God! my time is in Thine hands. Should it please Thee to lengthen my life, and complete, as Thou hast begun, the work of blanching my locks, grant me grace to wear them as a crown of unsullied honor.