Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.
All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.
The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs.
Stubbornness should have been my middle name.
The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.
If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.