A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.
The church doesn’t have a mission; there is a mission, and it has the church.
The reality is that if you always do what you've always done, you'll always be where you've always been.
The great opposition to reading is what I allow to fill my time instead of reading. To say we have no time to read is not really true; we simply have chosen to use our time for other things, or have allowed our time to be filled to the exclusion of reading. So don't add reading to your to-do list. Just stop doing the things that keep you from doing it. But read.
I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.
To withdraw from creatures and repose with Jesus in the Tabernacle is my delight; there I can hide myself and seek rest. There I find a life which I cannot describe, a joy which I cannot make others comprehend, a peace such as is found only under the hospitable roof of our best Friend.
Most old people. . . are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others - guests who didn't have the good manners to leave when the party was over.
I understand the chairman of the Senate Ethics comittee is going to examine the check-bouncing scandal with a microscope. . . . makes sense. . . If you're going to look at ethics in Congress, a microscope is what you need.