I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath.

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.

Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God.

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

In the silences I make in the midst of the turmoil of life I have appointments with God. From these silences I come forth with spirit refreshed, and with a renewed sense of power. I hear a voice in the silences, and become increasingly aware that it is the voice of God.

It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way... There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will.

Lord, let me make a difference for you that is utterly disproportionate to who I am.