Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is.

The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.

Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God.

The more holy a man becomes, the more conscious he is of unholiness.

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.

There is no form of sinfulness to which you are addicted which Christ cannot remove.

You are engaged in a work so spiritual, so far above all human power, that to forget the Spirit is to ensure defeat.