Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
The Catholic ideal is to order the whole of life towards unity, not by the denial and destruction of the natural human values, but by bringing them into living relation with spiritual truth and spiritual reality.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.