There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.

God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.

To the irreligious person heaven would be hell.

Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.

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

To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another, I have my mission ... He has not created me for naught ... If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about.