An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.

Christian living does not mean to be good but to become good; not to be well, but to get well; not being but becoming; nor rest but training. We are not yet, but we shall be. It has not yet happened, but it is the way. Not everything shines and sparkles as yet, but everything is getting better.

...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil.

Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God.

Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body.

None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.

At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground and essence of all reality. A Being of infinite love and boundless power, God is the creator, sustainer, and conserver of values....In contrast to the ethical relativism of [totalitarianism], Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the very structure of this universe certain moral principles that are fixed and immutable.