Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.

Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.

The Angel's bread is made the Bread of man today.

If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its origin; we know not its end. And the presumption, if not the degradation, rests with those who place upon the throne of the universe a magnified image of themselves, and make its doings a mere colossal imitation of their own. Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.

The magnitude of the punishment matches the magnitude of the sin. Now a sin that is against God is infinite; the higher the person against whom it is committed, the graver the sin-it is more criminal to strike a head of state than a private citizen-and God is of infinite greatness. Therefore an infinite punishment is deserved for a sin committed against Him.