All Human Love Is A Holy Thing,

If We Feel That Any Habit Or Pursuit, Harmless In Itself, Is Keeping Us From God And Sinking Us Deeper In The Things Of Earth; If We Find That Things Which Others Can Do With Impunity Are For Us The Occasion Of Falling, Then Abstinence Is Our Only Course. Abstinence Alone Can Recover For Us The Real Value Of What Should Have Been For Our Help But Which Has Been An Occasion Of Falling. ... It Is Necessary That We Should Steadily Resolve To Give Up Anything That Comes Between Ourselves And God.

Faith Is An Act Of Self-consecration, In Which The Will, The Intellect, And The Affections All Have Their Place.

Faith Is An Act Of Rational Choice, Which Determines Us To Act As If Certain Things Were True, And In The Confident Expectation That They Will Prove To Be True.

No Christian Can Be A Pessimist, For Christianity Is A System Of Radical Optimism.

The Wealth Of A Soul Is Measured By How Much It Can Feel; Its Poverty By How Little.