Real repentance means coming not only to be sorry for the consequences of sin but to hate sin itself.

A saint is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God.

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.

True prayer is asking God what He wants.

The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence.

We are trying not so much to make God listen to us as to make ourselves listen to him; we are trying not to persuade God to do what we want, but to find out what he wants us to do. It so often happens that in prayer we are really saying, 'Thy will be changed,' when we ought to be saying, 'Thy will be done.' The first object of prayer is not so much to speak to God as to listen to him.

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