Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

Let the man who would hear God speak, read Holy Scriptures.

In human affairs we accomplish everything through prayer. What has been properly arranged we keep in order, what has gone amiss we change and improve, what cannot be changed and improved we bear, overcoming all the trouble and sustaining all the good by prayer. Against force there is no help but prayer alone.

What is our death but a night's sleep? For as through sleep all weariness and faintness pass away and cease, and the powers of the spirit come back again, so that in the morning we arise fresh and strong and joyous; so at the Last Day we shall rise again as if we had only slept a night, and shall be fresh and strong.

If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.