Birth: July 15, 1808 Death: January 14, 1892
To those who are His all things are not only easy to be borne, but even to be gladly chosen. Their will is united to that will which moves heaven and….
But the appeal to antiquity is both a treason and a heresy. It is a treason because it rejects the Divine voice of the Church at this hour, and a her….
You may have living and habitual conversation in heaven, under the aspect of the most simple, ordinary life. Remember that holiness does not consist….
It consists in a watchful, minute attention to the particulars of our state, and to the multitude of God's gifts, taken one by one. It fills us with ….
Few men are both rich and generous; fewer are both rich and humble..
Our character is our will; for what we will we are..
Holiness does not consist in doing uncommon things, but in doing every thing with purity of heart..
One must overcome history by dogma..
A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it..
A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less..
Praise consists in the love of God, in wonder at the goodness of God, in recognition of the gifts of God, in seeing God in all things He gives us, ay….
Every duty, even the least duty, involves the whole principle of obedience..
One of the chief duties which [the Christian] will punctually and carefully fulfill is the duty of prayer. You will remember in the Book of Acts, whe….
To put labour and wages first and human ordomestic life second is to invert the order of God and of nature..