Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.

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.

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

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.

How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?

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

Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.