A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.

Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.

The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.

When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.

It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.