It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. We feel it in a thousand things. I say that the heart naturally loves the Universal Being, and naturally loves itself; and it gives itself to one or the other, and hardens itself against one or the other, as it chooses...it is the heart that feels God, not the reason; this is faith.

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.

Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.

All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.

Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.