“One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin.”

All the problems of the world – child labor, corruption – are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.

There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.

What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.

Muscles come and go; flab lasts.

An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.

There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere.

Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.

A nation has character only when it is free.

If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.

Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.

You have to climb to reach a deep thought.

ho’ you’re tired and weary Still journey on, till you come to your happy abode, Where all you love you’ve been dreaming of Will be there, at the end of the road.

Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?

Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions – and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.

There are two kinds of pedestrians… the quick and the dead.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.

Give yourself and everyone else some grace for being human.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

The older one gets, the more one feels that the present moment must be enjoyed, comparable to a state of grace.

This world is the first miracle God made. God has placed the grace of new wonders in our hands.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Let us pray in silence that the Lord will give us this grace.