The sins that we respectable people commit lightly every day, of pride and indolence and indifference to the sufferings of the poor, may be worse in His sight than the most flagrant sins of those who know no better.

You cannot be good and do wrong.    You cannot be righteous and do unrighteousness.  

But the habit of mind which leads us to palliate our sins and find good excuses for them, has this dangerous tendency, that it blinds us to the evil of evil.

TRIED by final tests, and reduced to its essential elements, sin is the preference of self to God, and the assertion of the human will against the Will of God.

Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never-so-little scar.

IN the conduct of life, habits count for more than maxims, because habit is a living maxim, become flesh and instinct.

ONE of the main seats of our weakness lies in this very notion, that what we do at the moment cannot matter much;

GREAT occasions do not make heroes or cowards – they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.

All merely negative purity has something of the taint of the impurity that it resists.   The effort not to be frivolous is frivolous itself. The effort not to be selfish is very apt to be only another form of selfishness.