We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

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.

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

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.

God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.