If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

Unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

The proof of how real Jesus knew hell to be is that He came to earth to save us from it.

God hasn't given up on you. He can still do great things for you, in you, and through you. God is ready and waiting and able. What about you, and me?

It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.

There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.

Please call me Eddie if it will help you to relax.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

I'm a proud product of the American middle class.

If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure.

The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.

The Eucharist is the supreme proof of the love of Jesus. After this, there is nothing more but Heaven itself

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

There's a similarity in both being young people who are not about the politics of respectability.