Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don't like to open a letter that has bad news.

One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome.

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.

We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds. Which is better is clear, for the Christian ideal is always positive rather than negative.

The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.

Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.

The simple shepherds heard the voice of an angel and found their Lamb; the wise men saw the light of a star and found their Wisdom.