If you care to see God, be pure. If you will not be pure, you will grow more and more impure.

It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid of otherwise than by bowing the neck to the yoke of the Father's will. There can be no other rest for heart and soul than He has created. From every burden, from every anxiety, from all dread of shame or loss, even loss of love itself, that yoke will set us free.

I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.

Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.

No one is likely to remember what is entirely uninteresting to him.

No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him.

There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.