Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

Dear Lord...shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul...Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.

To the irreligious person heaven would be hell.

I wonder what day I shall die on - one passes year by year over one's death day, as one might pass over one's grave.

And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.