The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.

Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.

If we are proud of our talents we betray our lack of gratitude to God.

We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.

Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.

He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.

When we see that the whole sum of our salvation, and every single part of it, are comprehended in Christ, we must beware of deriving even the minutest portion of it from any other quarter.