Live Each Day As You Would Climb

To Value Only What Can Be "sold" Is To Defile What Is Truly Precious. The Innocent Joy Of Childhood, The Devotedness Of A Wife, The Self Sacrificing Service Of A Daughter--none Of These Have An Earthly Market. To Reduce Everything To The Dirty Scales Of Economic Values Is To Forget That Some Gifts, Like Mary's, Are So Precious That The Heart That Offers Them Will Be Praised As Long As Time Endures.

Our Personal Dispositions Are As Windowpanes Through Which We See The World Either As Rosy Or Dull. The Way We Color The Glasses We Wear Is The Way The World Seems To Us.

The Refusal To Take Sides On Great Moral Issues Is Itself A Decision. It Is A Silent Acquiescence To Evil. The Tragedy Of Our Time Is That Those Who Still Believe In Honesty Lack Fire And Conviction, While Those Who Believe In Dishonesty Are Full Of Passionate Conviction.

When A Man Loves A Woman, He Has To Become Worthy Of Her. The Higher Her Virtue, The More Noble Her Character, The More Devoted She Is To Truth, Justice, Goodness, The More A Man Has To Aspire To Be Worthy Of Her. The History Of Civilization Could Actually Be Written In Terms Of The Level Of Its Women.

The Only Way To Win Audiences Is To Tell People About The Life And Death Of Christ. Every Other Approach Is A Waste.