What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets ? A thief who was trying to reform would. To be conceited of doing one's duty is then a sign of how little one does it, and how little one sees what a contemptible thing it is not to do it. Could any but a low creature be conceited of not being contemptible? Until our duty becomes to us common as breathing, we are poor creatures.

He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.

Truth is truth, whether from the lips of Jesus or Balaam.

On Good Friday Jesus died But rose again at Eastertide.....Lord, teach us to understand that your Son died to save us not from suffering but from ourselves, not from injustice...but from being unjust. He died that we might live - but live as he lives, by dying as he died who died to himself.

Religion is life essential.

I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.