If we had strength and faith enough to trust ourselves entirely to God; and follow Him simply wherever He should lead us, we should have no need of any great effort of mind to reach perfection.

People who have no secrets from each other never want for a subject of conversation. They do not weigh their words, for there is nothing to be held back, neither do they seek for something to say. They talk out of the abundance of their heart, without consideration they say just what they think. Blessed are they who attain to such familiar, unreserved intercourse with God.

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

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.

Speak, move, act in peace.

Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.