The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.

There are some people who think that they should be always mourning, that they should put a continual constraint upon themselves, and feel a disgust for those amusements to which they are obliged to submit. For my own part, I confess that I know not how to conform myself to these rigid notions. I prefer something more simple, which I also think would be more pleasing to God.

It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God.

The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy the power of the final dying.

Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a simple movement of heart toward God will renew our powers. Whatever he may demand of us, he will give us at the moment the strength and courage that we need.

You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God.

A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.