Grace in the soul is heaven in that soul.

Hope for the best, get ready for the worst, and then take what God chooses to send.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

Christ's followers cannot expect better treatment in the world than their Master had.

The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.

It was the greatest honor God did to man that he made man in the image of God; but it is the greatest dishonor man has done to God that he has made God in the image of man.

The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it.

There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

After a storm comes a calm.

Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Sometimes the church isn´t the place where we meet Jesus, it´s the place where we hide ourselves from the world.

If you do not tell me, I don’t wish to know.

Old friends are the great blessing of one's later years. ... They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking.

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.

The Holy Grail of universal coverage in the United States may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest, we can reduce per capita costs.

I've been running since high school. My boyfriend was on the track team, and I'd run with him.

God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.

Nuclear-armed Iran ought to be a major concern. And they're moving forward. We have got to roll that back.