For why, my brothers and sisters, would you rejoice in silver? Either your silver will perish, or you will, and no one knows which will perish first. For neither can you remain here always, nor can silver remain here always; so also with gold, wardrobes, houses, money, real estate-and in the end, even the light by which we enjoy all these things. So do not be willing then to rejoice in such things as these. Rejoice instead in the light that has no setting; rejoice in the dawn which no yesterday precedes, and no tomorrow follows.

Grace alone brings about every good work in us.

If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's.

God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.

We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.