Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.

Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears.

A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.

Things always work according to their nature.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator. When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. In so far as I learn to love my earthly dearest at the expense of God and instead of God, I shall be moving towards the state in which I shall not love my earthly dearest t all. When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed bu increased.