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.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

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

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.

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

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

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