The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind commands the hand to move, and it so easy that one hardly distinguishes the order from its execution. Yet mind is mind and hand is body. The mind orders the mind to will. The recipient of the order is itself, yet it does not perform it.

Love God, and do what you like.

Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.

Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. . .The saints'. . . knowledge, which shall be great, shall keep them acquainted. . .with the eternal sufferings of the lost.

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.