Christ commands you to take up His cross and follow Him, not that He may humble you, or lay some penance upon you, but that you may surrender the low self-will and the feeble pride of your sin, and ascend into the sublime patience of heavenly charity.

Not all the winds, and storms, and earthquakes, and seas, and seasons of the world, have done so much to revolutionize the earth as Man, the power of an endless life, has done since the day he came forth upon it, and received dominion over it.

There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God.

Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are fraught with the greatest danger to millions.

Trust in God for great things. With your five loaves and two fishes He will show you a way to feed thousands.

It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.

Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.