Agnes Repplier

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

— Agnes Repplier

It is in his pleasures that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

— Agnes Repplier

The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.

— Agnes Repplier

...we ... know very well that we never learn unless we like our lesson, and never behave ourselves unless inspired by precept and example. The history of every nation is the heritage of its sons and daughters; and the story of its struggles, sufferings, misdeeds, and glorious atonements is the story that keeps alive in all our hearts that sentiment of patriotism, without which we are speeding swiftly on our path to national corruption and decay.

— Agnes Repplier

...why should our self-appointed instructors assume that because we do not chatter about a thing, we have never heard of it?

— Agnes Repplier

People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.

— Agnes Repplier

What the world asks now are state reforms and social reforms,—in other words, the reformation of our neighbours. What the Gospel asks, and has always asked, is the reformation of ourselves ... Mr. [G. K.] Chesterton spoke but the truth when he said that Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult, and not tried.

— Agnes Repplier

War will pass when injustice passes. Never before, unless hope leaves the world.

— Agnes Repplier

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

— Agnes Repplier

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

— Agnes Repplier