It is certainly a greater and more wonderful work to change the minds of enemies, bringing about a change of soul, than to kill them.

If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find Him in the chalice.

Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.

Not to share our own wealth with the poor is theft from the poor and deprivation of their means of life; we do not possess our own wealth, but theirs.

No matter how just your words may be, when you speak with anger, you ruin all: no matter how boldly you speak, how fairly reprove, or what not.

When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him.

The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts that light the path.

To destroy the fetus 'is something worse than murder.' The one who does this 'does not take away life that has already been born, but prevents it from being born.'

There is nothing colder than a Christian who does not seek to save others.

The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.

I am a Christian. He who answers thus has declared everything at once-his country, profession, family; the believer belongs to no city on earth but to the heavenly Jerusalem.

Hello, companion, " said Magnus.The monkey made a terrible sound, half snarl and half hiss."I begin to rather doubt the beauty of our friendship, " said Magnus.

The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even thought they countain most of our lives.

The day we stop learning is the day we die.

What we have here is a failure to communicate.

I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.

Even in the best and most peacefully civilized countries many occasions arise when a woman versed inthe knowledge and use of firarms may find that imformation and skill of great importance.

Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

If we have a strength, it is in recognizing when we are operating well within our circle of competence and when we are approaching the perimeter.