The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it.

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 be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing can disturb

Do we accustom ourselves to see all things in the light of faith? Do we correct all our judgments by it? Alas! The greater part of Christians think and act like mere heathens; if we judge (as we justly may) of their faith by their practice, we must conclude they have no faith at all.

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

Despondency is not a state of humility; on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride--nothing is worse; whether we stumble or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course.

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.