When the shore is won at last, Who will count the billow past?

Peace is the first thing the angels sang.

And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray.

Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest.

Once you make up your mind never to stand waiting and hesitating when your conscience tells you what you ought to do, and you have got the key to every blessing that a sinner can reasonably hope for.

Blest are the pure in heart, for they shall see our God. The secret of the Lord is theirs; Their soul is Christ's abode.

When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.

If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish

Give us grace to listen well.

New every morning is the love Our waking and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power and thought.

Why should we faint and fear to live alone,Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die?Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own,Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh.

Be strong, live happy and love, but first of allHim whom to love is to obey, and keepHis great command!

We are God’s holy people.

Understand the flaws and you will know the perfection of the Universe.

A good fighter must sense rather than perceive his chance to strike.

even though the dead are beyond our touch, they remain fully dimensional, fully capable of affecting our decisions and quandaries.

The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.

I know of nothing that I feel is of so great value in life as to be obedient to the counsel and advice of the Lord, and of His servants in this our day.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him.

I like a good beer buzz early in the morning.