“He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy, He the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.”1
“God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.”
“If you plan to build a tall house of virtues, you must first lay deep foundations of humility.”
“Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.”
“God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.”
“Trials come to prove and improve us.”
“He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.”
“To seek the highest good is to live well.”
“He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.”
“The Jews looked upon a serpent to be freed from serpents; and we look upon the death of Christ to be delivered from death.”
“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.”
“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”
“Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all.”
“The Bible is shallow enough for a child not to drown, yet deep enough for an elephant to swim.”
“Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.”
“If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.”
“This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.”
“It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.”
“God would never permit evil, if He could not bring good out of evil.”
1 All of the above quotes are from the website below: