To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.

The measure of love is to love without measuring.

I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.

I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.

Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within which must offend Thine eyes; I confess and know it. But who shall cleanse it? or to whom should I cry, save Thee? Lord, cleanse me from my secret faults, and spare Thy servant from the power of the enemy. I believe, and therefore do I speak.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.