His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emotions of compassion and mercy are traced to Him; there is more to human deeds than the doers are aware. He identified every act of kindness as an expression of sympathy with Himself. All kindnesses are either done explicitly or implicitly in His name, or they are refused explicitly or implicitly in His name.

It's impossible to lose your footing when you're on your knees.

Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.

Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.

Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.

No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is opaque like a curtain; nothing can be seen through it. A mountain is just a mountain, a sunset just a sunset; but to poets, artists, and saints, the world is transparent like a window pane - it tells of something beyond....a mountain tells of the Power of God, the sunset of His Beauty, and the snowflake of His Purity.

Satan always tempts the pure - the others are already his.