No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Every man's life is a fairy tale, written by God's fingers.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Faith is a living, bold trust in God's grace, so certain of God's favor that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it.
I will preach it, teach it, write it, but I will constrain no one by force, for faith must come freely without compulsion.
This life is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness; not health, but healing; not being, but becoming.
I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures.
I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.
Disturb us, Lord, when with the abundance of things we possess, we have lost our thirst for the waters of life.
The wind commands me away. Our ship is under sail. God grant we may so live in His fear as the enemy may have cause to say that God doth fight for Her Majesty.
The fact is: I no longer believe in my own infallibility. That is why I am lost.
Twas not me, twas the Lord. I always told Him, I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect You to lead me, and He always did.
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe, to know what he ought to desire, and to know what he ought to do.
The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
We left from Restelo one Saturday, the 8th day of July, on our journey. May God our Lord allow us to complete it in His service.
I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
