“Preachers are not sermon makers, but men makers and saint makers, and he only is well-trained for this business who has made himself a man and a saint. It is not great talents nor great learning nor great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God - men always preaching by holy sermons in the pulpit, by holy lives out of it. These can mold a generation for God.”

The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 114.

(Roger Steer. Hudson Taylor: Lessons in Discipleship. OMF International, 1995, 51).

From, Light on Carmel: An Anthology from the Works of Brother John of Saint Samson, O.Carm.

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 105.

The Sixteenth Revelation, Chapter 80

Magnam habet cordis tranquillitatem, qui nec laudes curat, nec vituperia. — Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ (ca. 1418), book II, ch. VI, paragraph 2.
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Lecture at the University of Notre Dame (13 October 1930), as quoted in notes taken by Professor Richard Baker, of the University of Dayton, and published in The Chesterton Review (Winter/Spring 1977)