If we feel that any habit or pursuit, harmless in itself, is keeping us from God and sinking us deeper in the things of earth; if we find that things which others can do with impunity are for us the occasion of falling, then abstinence is our only course. Abstinence alone can recover for us the real value of what should have been for our help but which has been an occasion of falling. ... It is necessary that we should steadily resolve to give up anything that comes between ourselves and God.

All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.