It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

What does God want me to do?”, not “What will God do if I do so and so?

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone - which is not, in some form or degree, in every human heart.

Will is not unfrequently weakness.

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.

The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self.