Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.

For in our hope we are saved.

The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany and follow every good work we do, if it is not before us to focus on, it it is not beside us to lean upon, if it is not behind us to fence us in, pride will wrench from our hand any good deed we do at the very moment we do it.

When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.