Sincerity is not test of truth-no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life?

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.

Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.