It Is Often Said That Second Thoughts

Virtue Is Its Own Reward, And Brings With It The Truest And Highest Pleasure; But If We Cultivate It Only For Pleasure's Sake, We Are Selfish, Not Religious, And Will Never Gain The Pleasure, Because We Can Never Have The Virtue.

Reason Is One Thing And Faith Is Another And Reason Can As Little Be Made A Substitute For Faith, As Faith Can Be Made A Substitute For Reason.

All Men Have A Reason, But Not All Men Can Give A Reason.

Christ Is Already In That Place Of Peace, Which Is All In All. He Is On The Right Hand Of God. He Is Hidden In The Brightness Of The Radiance Which Issues From The Everlasting Throne. He Is In The Very Abyss Of Peace, Where There Is No Voice Of Tumult Or Distress, But A Deep Stillness--stillness, That Greatest And Most Awful Of All Goods Which We Can Fancy; That Most Perfect Of Joys, The Utter Profound, Ineffable Tranquillity Of The Divine Essence. He Has Entered Into His Rest. That Is Our Home; Here We Are On A Pilgrimage, And Christ Calls Us To His Many Mansions Which He Has Prepared.

All That Is Good, All That Is True, All That Is Beautiful, All That Is Beneficent, Be It Great Or Small, Be It Perfect Or Fragmentary, Natural As Well As Supernatural, Moral As Well As Material, Comes From God.