When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses.

Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away paradise. Therefore in all temptations consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.

God will have the body partake with the soul-as in matters of grief, so in matters of joy; the lanthorn shines in the light of the candle within.

Those that look to be happy must first look to be holy.

Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.

God's children improve all advantages to advance their grand end; they labour to grow better by blessings and crosses, and to make sanctified use of all things.

Possibilitas tua mensura tua'(What is possible to you is what you will be measured by).