“He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.”

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.

The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.

God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.

If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Love and do what you will.

God gives where he finds empty hands.

Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.

In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory.

When we live to the glory of God, we show His goodness living through us instead of just ourselves.

Sometimes in the contrast of the night, we can best see the glory of God.

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.