Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
Split a piece of wood and I am there.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.
The great obstacle to the conversion of the modern world is the belief that religion has no intellectual significance; that it may be good for morals and satisfying to man's emotional needs, but that it corresponds to no objective reality.
Devotion does not mean only chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.
I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
