One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them.

Before we can conquer the world, we must first conquer the self.

Sacrifice is the ecstasy of giving the best we have to the One we love most.

Disciples [deep people] are not manufactured wholesale. They are produced one by one, because someone has taken the pains to discipline, to instruct and enlighten, to nurture and train one that is younger.

To be a leader in the Church has always required strength and faith beyond the merely human.

Each of us is as full of the Spirit as we really want to be.

It is very possible to be proud of the spiritual gifts God has entrusted to us and to strut about ostentatiously, forgetting that we have nothing which we have not received, that grace is a gift, an undeserved favor. We can actually be filled with pride at the eloquence and brilliance of our sermon on humility.