I am so tried by the things said about God. I understand God's patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how he can be so patient with the pious!

But there are not a few who would be indignant at having their belief in God questioned, who yet seem greatly to fear imagining Him better than He is.

Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.

To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote.

For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.

To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.

Good souls many will one day be horrified at the things they now believe of God.