Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.

Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.

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.

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

By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.

Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.