A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

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

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.

Great things are done by devotion to one idea.

Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.

Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.

Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith will not last. This is why many in this age (and in every age) become infidels, heretics, schismatics, disloyal despisers of the Church. They cast off the form of truth, because it never has been to them more than a form. They endure not, because they never have tasted that the Lord is gracious; and they never have had experience of His power and love, because they have never known their own weakness and need.