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."

Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.

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

What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits.

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.

Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.