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

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 ... He has not created me for naught ... If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about.

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

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

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

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.

Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.