Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.

A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human will leaves off and divine grace begins.

Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.