The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.

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

To value only what can be "sold" is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of a wife, the self sacrificing service of a daughter--none of these have an earthly market. To reduce everything to the dirty scales of economic values is to forget that some gifts, like Mary's, are so precious that the heart that offers them will be praised as long as time endures.

Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.