To walk out of his will is to walk into nowhere.

Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.

Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the Heaven of Heavens. So it would be impious to call ourselves 'miserable.' On the contrary, Man is a creature whom the Angels-were they capable of envy-would envy. Let us lift up our hearts!

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

We know we are sinners, it does not follow that we are saved.

Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.