I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother.
The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.
Where the plow does not go and the seed is not sown, the weeds are sure to multiply.
There is no university for a Christian, like that of sorrow and trial
Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.
Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!