“The most likely man to go to hell is the man who has nothing to do on earth. Idle people tempt the devil to tempt them.”

“Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.”

“There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on H...”

“When your will is God's will, you will have your will.”

“Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread themdigest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make...”

“Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity. ”

“...reclusiveness itself may be a kind of violence. It leaves an abyss for us to throw our fantasies into.”

“A fair vision had welcomed him in this land of disease.”

“In a fallen world marked by human depravity and deep-seated sin, in a world where Hitler and Stalin had recruited millions of followers to commit mass murder, love must harness power and seek justi...”

“I am one and when I am one I am none, and when I am none I have won.”

“He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.”

“ The least known among the virtues and also the most misunderstood is the virtue of humility. Yet, it is the very groundwork of Christianity. Humility is a grace of the soul that cannot be expresse...”