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

Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.

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

You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.

All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.

Now what is it that moves our very hearts and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes?.. They have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance... There is something so very dreadful, so Satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.

Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that He will bring us to that which is, not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us.