My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.

The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

If we knew as much about heaven as God does, we would clap our hands every time a Christian dies.

I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself.

In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably.

Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.