It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

Right gladly would He free them from their misery, but He knows only one way: He will teach them to be like himself, meek and lowly, bearing with gladness the yoke of His Father's will. This in the one, the only right, the only possible way of freeing them from their sin, the cause of their unrest.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

Fear is faithlessness.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

As Christ is the blossom of humanity, so the blossom of every man is Christ perfected in him.

It is the heart that is not sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in His presence.