If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.

In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike.

I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.

Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously condemnatory, as parents are with the dog that bites their little one, but the weeping child itself they soothe.

The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing; every one must be an author; some out of vanity, to acquire celebrity and raise up a name, others for the sake of mere gain.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.