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

The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.

Faith in God is the instrument which enables men and women to remove the hills of difficulty which block their path.

We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the traveling and in the goal, the way of joy.

It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

The Christian is called upon to be the partner of God in the work of the conversion of men.