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

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

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.

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

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

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.