Oh, what thoughts man might have had about the fact that God is in all creatures, and so might have reflected on the power and the wisdom of God in even the smallest flowers!

As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.

True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.

Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love...receiving from above [faith] and giving out below [love].

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

I did not learn my theology all at once, but had to search constantly deeper and deeper for it. My temptations did that for me, for no one can understand Holy Scripture without practice and temptations...I t is not by reading, writing, or speculation that one becomes a theologian. Nay, rather, it is living, dying, and being damned that makes one a theologian.