Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.

How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!

Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life; I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls; but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live.

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall see God, though he pore whole nights upon his Bible; so without that, without humility, no man shall hear God speak to his soul, though he hear three two-hour sermons every day.

What if this present were the world's last night?

In heaven it is always autumn.

Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?