The church changes the world not by making converts but by making disciples.

And now run the race which is set before thee, in the royal way of universal love.

The bottom of the soul may be in repose, even while we are in many outward troubles; just as the bottom of the sea is calm, while the surface is strongly agitated.

The readiest way to escape from our sufferings is, to be willing they should endure as long as God pleases.

I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation.

May we not say, that true zeal is not mostly charitable, but wholly so? That is, if we take charity in St. Paul's sense, for love; the love of God and our neighbour. For it is a certain truth, (although little understood in the world), that Christian zeal is all love. It is nothing else.

[Christ] does not give [men] light but from moment to moment; the instant He withdraws, all is darkness.... God does not give them a stock of holiness.