Faith is obedience, not compliance.

Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.

There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator.

I learned that he that will be a hero will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work is sure of his manhood.

I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of me; yet outside of such absoluteness can be no salvation.

As Christ is the blossom of humanity, so the blossom of every man is Christ perfected in him.

There is an aching that is worse than any pain.