"Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life."
"In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life."
"God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way."
"We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito."
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."