Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven….

There is no structural organization of society which can bring about the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth since all systems can be perverted by ….

Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both..

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God….

Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness..

The greatest pleasure in life is love..

The greatest medicine is a true friend..

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit..

Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of mind with His truth; the p….

I prefer a God who once and for all impressed his will upon creation, to one who continually busied about modifying what he had already done..

The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinion….

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies..

We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his fai….

People that trust wholly to other's charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor..

If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is ….

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from….

Christianity founds hospitals and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ..

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor..

A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy..

It is sometimes said that conduct is supremely important and worship helps it. The truth is that worship is supremely important and conduct tests it.

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't..