"Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask but when we are challenged to be what we can be."

"Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with pain; he promises profit, and pays with loss, he promises life, and pays with death. But God pays as he promises; all his payments are made in pure gold."

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."

"Man does not rule over evil except when he refuses to do it. When he has truly done evil, he is its servant."

"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."

"Revenge never healed a wound."

"If God is thy father, man is thy brother."

"God delights to increase the faith of his children. We ought, instead of wanting no trials before victory, no exercise for patience, to be willing to take them from God's hands as a means. Trials, obstacles, difficulties, and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith."

"From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel."

"We should never attempt to bear more than one kind of trouble at once. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have."

"In trouble to be troubled is to have your trouble doubled."

"We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope."

"A sacred regard to the authority of God ought to lead us to reject an error, however old, sanctioned by whatever authority, or however generally practiced."

"Everyone may be entitled to his own opinion but everyone is not entitled to his own truth. Truth is but one."

"A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself."

"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.”

"We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done for us in the past and all that he is doing now leads us to that one end."

"The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came."

"Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all."

"If Christ does not reign over the mundane events in our lives, He does not reign at all."