This kind of intense loyalty, then, became the well-spring of the IBM spirit, the family spirit as it was called.

A spiritual prayer is a humble prayer. Prayer is the asking of an alms, which requires humility... The lower the heart descends, the higher the prayer ascends.

Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?

This kind of intense loyalty, then, became the well-spring of the IBM spirit, the family spirit as it was called.

If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger.

Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into the bow of Christ's intercession it pierces the throne of grace.

Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.