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.

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.

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

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

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.

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