Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.

When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.

There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power.

There is never any peace for those who resist God.

The great point is to renounce your own wisdom by simplicity of walk, and to be ready to give up the favor, esteem, and approbation of every one, whenever the path in which God leads you passes that way.

Commit yourself then to God! He will be your guide. He Himself will travel with you, as we are told He did with the Israelites, to bring them step by step across the desert to the promised land. Ah! what will be your blessedness, if you will but surrender yourself into the hands of God, permitting Him to do whatever He will, not according to your desires, but according to His own good pleasure?