Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.

God could not keep, as it were, the secret of His love, and the telling of it was creation.

Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.

Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.

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

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.

There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do