Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations.

Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.

Health is a good thing; but sickness is far better, if it leads us to God.

Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often made idols, and all must bow down to them or be punished.

The resurrection of Christ is one of the foundation stones of Christianity. It was the seal of the great work that He came on earth to do. It was the crowning proof that the ransom He paid for sinners was accepted, the atonement for sin accomplished, the head of him who had the power of death bruised, and the victory won.

He that would be conformed to Christ's image, and become a Christ-like man, must be constantly studying Christ Himself.

Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.