I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself.

The face of the Son of God, who, instead of accepting the sacrifice of one of his creatures to satisfy his justice or support his dignity, gave himself utterly unto them, and therein to the Father by doing his lovely will; who suffered unto the death, not that men might not suffer, but that their suffering might be like his, and lead them up to his perfection.

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.

We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.

Blessed be the true life that the pauses between its throbs are not death!

there is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away.