If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.

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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

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To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.

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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.

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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.

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The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

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Love and say it with your life.

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