The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed.

The true Christian is one who is kind of sick of this world. If I find anybody who is settled down too snugly into this world, I am made to doubt whether he's ever truly been born again

The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians.

One compromise here, another there and soon enough the so-called Christian and the man in the world look the same.

No one need fear to listen to the voice of God unless he has already made up his mind to resist it.

The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed ones who possess the Kingdom are they who have repudiated every external thing and have rooted from their hearts all sense of possessing. These are the 'poor in spirit.'

What I cannot know by reason, I can know by simply believing.