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

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

How on the face of the earth could a man enjoy his religion, when he had been told by the Lord how to prepare for a day of famine, when, instead of doing so, he had fooled away that which would have sustained him and his family.

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.

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

There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.

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