How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

When you come to be sensibly touched, the scales will fall from your eyes; and by the penetrating eyes of love you will discern that which your other eyes will never see.

All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.

To will everything that God wills, and to will it always, in all circumstances and without reservations: that is the kingdom of God which is entirely within.

O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee.

This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom--the very fashion of which "passeth away.