It is in the darkness that one finds the light.
.... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.
Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered.
The love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us.
Outward as well as inward morality helps to form the idea of a true Christian freedom. We are right to lay stress on inwardness, but in this world there is no inwardness without an outward expression.
Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.