Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

All is loss that comes between us and Christ.

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.

In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.

Fear is faithlessness.

For the bliss of the animals lies in this, that, on their lower level, they shadow the bliss of those--few at any moment on the earth--who do not 'look before and after, and pine for what is not,' but live in the holy carelessness of the eternal now.

Do not measure God's mind by your own.