That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become.

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

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

It is salutary for us to learn to hold cheap such things, be they good or evil, as attach indifferently to good men and bad, and to covet those good things which belong only to good men, and flee those evils which belong only to evil men.

Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.

God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.