Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.

If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

Part of the down-to-earthness that made the pioneers succeed was expressed in a sentence: It takes pretty good [people] to get along with water ditches in a dry time, and not quarrel.