O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.

The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.