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

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.

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.

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