Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint is not to a principle but to the divine life. It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than it is to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him.

Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ.

The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet - that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.

If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior

It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us “go.

When the darkness of dismay comes, endure until it is over, because out of it will come that following of Jesus which is an unspeakable joy.

Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.