One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation by which we shall rise again from the dead, and shall live with the Angels for ever.

My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.

Thou movest us to delight in praising Thee; for Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee.

Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not.

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.