No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move forward daily in the Lord's way. And let us never despair because of our limited success. Even though it is so much less than we would like, our labour is not wasted when today is better than yesterday!

The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act.

In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.

For it was not after we were reconciled to him by the blood of his Son that he began to love us, but he loved us before the foundation of the world, that with his only begotten Son we too might be sons of God before we were anything at all.

To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.

The name of Christ excludes all merit of our own.

All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.