Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.

Dear Lord...shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul...Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

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.

The world is content with setting right the surface of things.

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.