The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.

And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.

It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to baptism; and it is through this one Spirit that the infant so presented is reborn. For it is not written, 'Unless a man be born again by the will of his parents' or 'by the faith of those presenting him or ministering to him,' but, 'Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit.' The water, therefore, manifesting exteriorly the sacrament of grace, and the Spirit effecting interiorly the benefit of grace, both regenerate in one Christ that man who was generated in Adam.

Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.