He said not 'Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased'; but he said, 'Thou shalt not be overcome.

Glad and merry and sweet is the blessed and lovely demeanour of our Lord towards our souls, for he saw us always living in love-longing, and he wants our souls to be gladly disposed toward him . . . by his grace he lifts up and will draw our outer disposition to our inward, and will make us all at unity with him, and each of us with others in the true, lasting joy which is Jesus.

We are in God and God whom we do not see is in us.

Every act of kindness and compassion done by any man for his fellow Christian is done by Christ working within him.

The age of every man shall be acknowledged before him in Heaven, and every man shall be rewarded for his willing service and for his time.

For in every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall.

He [Jesus] did not say, 'You will never have a rough passage, you will never be over-strained, you will never feel uncomfortable,' but he did say, 'You will never be overcome.