"Ever since the religion of Islam appeared in the world, the espousers of it...have been as wolves and tigers to all other nations, rending and tearing all that fell into their merciless paws, and grinding them with their iron teeth; that numberless cities are raised from the foundation, and only their name remaining; that many countries, which were once as the garden of God, are now a desolate wilderness; and that so many once numerous and powerful nations are vanished from the earth! Such was, and is at this day, the rage, the fury, the revenge, of these destroyers of human kind".

My one aim in life is to secure personal holiness, for without being holy myself I cannot promote real holiness in others.

May we not say, that true zeal is not mostly charitable, but wholly so? That is, if we take charity in St. Paul's sense, for love; the love of God and our neighbour. For it is a certain truth, (although little understood in the world), that Christian zeal is all love. It is nothing else.

Oh Lord, let me not live to be useless.

You have nothing to do but to save souls; therefore spend and be spent in this work.

Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.

The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. I exact more from myself and less from others.