“Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.”

Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.

Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

You can’t let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.

I’m scared of the day I turn 19. I really don’t want to grow past 18.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.

Don’t take counsel of your fears or naysayers.

The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

There’s always fear of the unknown where there’s mystery.