I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.

You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.

There are wounds of the spirit which never close and are intended in God's mercy to bring us nearer to Him, and to prevent us leaving Him by their very perpetuity. Such wounds then may almost be taken as a pledge, or at least as a ground for a humble trust, that God will give us the great gift of perseverance to the end. This is how I comfort myself in my own great bereavements.

Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.