I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.

Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.

Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.

With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.

To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.

Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.