The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.

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

I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I began explaining it.

For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I wondered yet more that myself, who was to him a second self, could live, he being dead. Well said one of his friend, "Thou half of my soul"; for I felt that my soul and his soul were "one soul in two bodies": and therefore was my life a horror to me, because I would not live halved. And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved should die wholly.

Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.

He who labours, prays.

To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.