 You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you. Topics: Conscience, Feelings |
| I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess. Topics: Contentment |
| Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you. Topics: Contentment |
| Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen. Topics: Contentment |
| I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth. Topics: Education, Diligence, Youth |
| When schools flourish, all flourishes. Topics: Education |
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| Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf of springtime. Topics: Eternity, Nature, Resurrection |
| Our Lord God doeth work like a printer, who setteth the letters backward; we see and feel well His setting, but we shall see the print yonder in the life to come. Topics: Eternity |
| Monastic vows rest on the false assumption that there is a special calling, a vocation, to which superior Christians are invited to observe the counsels of perfection while ordinary Christians fulfil only the commands; but there simply is no special religious vocation since the call of God comes to each at the common tasks. Topics: Faith |
| Night and day I pondered until I saw the connection between the justice of God and the statement that 'the just shall live by his faith.' Then I grasped that the justice of God is that righteousness by which through grace and sheer mercy God justifies us through faith. Thereupon I felt myself to be reborn and to have gone through open doors into paradise. Topics: Faith, Justification |
| Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God. Topics: Faith |
| Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works. Topics: Faith, Service |
