I am convinced that there is no great distance between heaven and earth, that the distance lies in our finite minds. When the Beloved visits us in the night, He turns our chambers into the vestibules of His palace halls. Earth rises to heaven when heaven comes down to earth.

Prayer is the breath, the watchword, the comfort, the strength, the honor of a Christian.

There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.

Of all the things in the world that can set the heart burning, there is nothing like the presence of Jesus!

Out of every difficulty Omnipotence can bring us, only let us in childlike confidence cast our burden upon the Lord.

Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables

True belief and true repentance are twins: it would be idle to attempt to say which is born first. All the spokes of a wheel move at once when the wheel moves, and so all the graces commence action when regeneration is wrought by the Holy Ghost. Repentance, however, there must be.