Consider how august a privilege it is, when angels are present, and archangels throng around, when cherubim and seraphim encircle with their blaze the throne, that a mortal may approach with unrestrained confidence, and converse with heaven's dread Sovereign! O, what honor was ever conferred like this?

What greater work is there than training the mind and forming the habits of the young?

Every family should have a room where Christ is welcome in the person of the hungry and thirsty stranger.

Just as those who are deprived of light cannot walk straight, so also those who do not behold the ray of the Holy Scriptures must necessarily sin, since they walk in the deepest darkness.

Are you angry? Be angry at your sins, beat your soul, afflict your conscience, but strict in judgement and a terrible punisher of your own sins. This is the benefit of anger, wherefore God placed it in us.

The love of husband and wife is the force that welds society together.

Nothing causes us to so nearly resemble God as the forgiveness of injuries.