Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.
Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.
Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail.
It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church. . . We must hold this for certain, namely: that the faith of the people at the present day is one with the faith of the people in past centuries. Were this not true, then we would be in a different church than they were in and, literally, the Church would not be One.
Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
There's nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world.
A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying Him. . . . The more a tree is like itself, the more it is like Him.
There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events.