The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.

The best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is never to forget the presence of Christ.

There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.

I thank you for my friends, for those who understand me better than I understand myself. For those who know me at my worst, and still like me. For those who have forgiven me when I had no right to expect to be forgiven. Help me to be as true to my friends as I would wish them to be to me.

If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.

Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.

A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.