The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God.

To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid “big” sins-is this passionate, wholehearted love for God?

Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies

How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent and God will speak again.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.