Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to any pointand to fasten to it, it wavers and leaves us; and if we follow it, it eludes our grasp, slips past us, and vanishes for ever. Nothing stays for us.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.