“The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow.”

The highest person is he who is of most use to humankind.

The most helpless person is the one who is helpless in reforming himself.

Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price

The best companion and helper is admirable morals.

Poverty is the worst form of death.

Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.

Wealth tends to create enemies, whereas knowledge tends to warm hearts.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him.

One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.

The word of God is the medicine of the heart.

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn’t believe it.

No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance.

Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack.

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people’s faults.

Vanity prevents improvement

Our Savior kneels down and gazes upon the darkest acts of our lives. But rather than recoil in horror, he reaches out in kindness and says, “I can clean that if you want.” And from the basin of his grace, he scoops a palm full of mercy and washes away our sin.

Think not I dread to see my spirit fly, Through the dark gates of fell mortality; Death has no terrors when the life is true; ‘Tis living ill that makes us fear to die.

The ignorant one does not see his ignorance as he basks in its darkness; nor does the knowledgeable one see his own knowledge, for he basks in its light.

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, ‘love lifts me.’

Unless God’s Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray.

Through thickest gloom look back, immortal shade, On that confusion which thy death has made.

Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life’s light to be determined by the darkness around me.