“If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.”

All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.

Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.

It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.

If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.

Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.

We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.

I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.

Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.

Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.

Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.

The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.

Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

Oh God, to think that you only fall in love once in your entire life is such a depressing thought.

The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.

A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.

The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.

It doesn’t really matter how rich you are, we’re all just renting here on earth! It all belongs to the Lord.

When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.

God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.