It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from age to age; and although she is always the same in herself, she is not always equally well known.

Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview. Too great length and too great brevity of discourse tends to obscurity; too much truth is paralyzing.... In short, extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.

God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.

By thought I embrace the universe.

Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.

Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.