Let my name die everywhere, let even my friends forget me, if by that means the cause of the blessed Jesus may be promoted

Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.

Though they have a Christ in their heads, they have no Christ in their hearts.

We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs.

The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove it.

Oh let us continually keep faith in exercise, till it be entirely swallowed up in the boundless ocean of beatific vision.

I began to read the Holy Scriptures upon my knees, laying aside all other books, and praying over, if possible, every line and word...I would be so overpowered with a sense of God's Infinite Majestey, that I would be contrained to throw myself on the ground, and offer my soul as a blank in His hands, to write on it what He pleased.