Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Peace is more important than all justice and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
Reason is the enemy of faith.
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
Nothing good ever comes of violence.
To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.
Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
Every man must do two things alone he must do his own believing and his own dying.
Forgiveness is God's command.
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.