If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

I wonder what day I shall die on - one passes year by year over one's death day, as one might pass over one's grave.

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.

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.

It is seldom we have the heart to throw ourselves, if I may so speak, on the Divine Arm; we dare not trust ourselves on the waters, though Christ bids us. We have not St. Peter's love to ask leave to come to him upon the sea. When we once are filled with that heavenly charity, we can do all things, because we attempt all things - for to attempt is to do.

When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless

Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.