Remember, it is not hasty reading, but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that makes them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bee’s touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that […]
Do well, as well as say well. Be zealous of good works. Spare not for any cost, if it may promote your Master’s work. Maintain your innocence, and walk without offence. Let your lives condemn sin, and persuade men to duty. There is no virtue wherein […]
I call “piety” that reverence joined with love of God which the knowledge of his benefits induces. For until men recognize that they owe everything to God, that they are nourished by his fatherly care, that he is the Author of their every good, that they […]
True humility gives God alone the honor A saying of Chrysostom’s has always pleased me very much, that the foundation of our philosophy is humility. But that of Augustine pleases me even more: “When a certain rhetorician was asked what was the chief rule in eloquence, […]
The Christian life receives its strongest motive to God’s work through the person and redemptive act of Christ For we have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition: that our life express Christ, the bond of our adoption. Accordingly, unless we give […]