As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be.

That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.

Prayer unites the soul to God.

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

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.

All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.

Love and Dread are brethren, and they are rooted in us by the Goodness of our Maker, and they shall never be taken from us without end. We have of nature to love and we have of grace to love: and we have of nature to dread and we have of grace to dread.