Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."

Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

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

There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation. He does not want to be holy; he only wants to seem to be holy. He is more concerned with his reputation for righteousness than about actually becoming righteous. The approbation of men matters more to him than the approval of God.

Every city is a living body.

And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here.