Quotes by Austin Phelps

“Wear the old coat and buy the new book.”

“Are you living for the things you are praying for?”

“I cannot live without books.”

“Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier”

“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.”

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

The consciousness of Divine friendship in devotion, so far from being impaired, is deepened by holy veneration. The purest and most lasting human friendships are permeated with an element of reverence; much more this friendship of a man with God.

We never feel Christ to be a reality, until we feel Him to be a necessity.

Vigilance in watching opportunity tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost possible achievement-these are the martial virtues which must command success.

We are never more like Christ than in prayers of intercession.