The Object Of Studying Philosophy Is To

Every Institution Not Only Carries Within It The Seeds Of Its Own Dissolution, But Prepares The Way For Its Most Hated Rival.

Bereavement Is The Sharpest Challenge To Our Trust In God; If Faith Can Overcome This, There Is No Mountain Which It Cannot Remove.

Action Is The Normal Completion Of The Act Of Will Which Begins As Prayer. That Action Is Not Always External, But It Is Always Some Kind Of Effective Energy.

Whoever Marries The Spirit Of This Age Will Find Himself A Widower In The Next.

If We Feel That Any Habit Or Pursuit, Harmless In Itself, Is Keeping Us From God And Sinking Us Deeper In The Things Of Earth; If We Find That Things Which Others Can Do With Impunity Are For Us The Occasion Of Falling, Then Abstinence Is Our Only Course. Abstinence Alone Can Recover For Us The Real Value Of What Should Have Been For Our Help But Which Has Been An Occasion Of Falling. ... It Is Necessary That We Should Steadily Resolve To Give Up Anything That Comes Between Ourselves And God.