The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us. Many a man will live and die upon a dogma; no man will be a martyr for a conclusion.

Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.

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.

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.

Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.

A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

What can this world offer comparable with that insight into spiritual things, that keen faith, that heavenly peace, that high sanctity, that everlasting righteousness, that hope of glory, which they have, who in sincerity love and follow our Lord Jesus Christ?