Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.

Consider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than yours, and say, "Of a truth my trouble is comfort, my torments are but roses as compared to those whose life is a continual death, without solace, or aid or consolation, borne down with a weight of grief tenfold greater than mine."

Oh what remorse we shall feel at the end of our lives, when we look back upon the great number of instructions and examples afforded by God and the Saints for our perfection, and so carelessly received by us! If this end were to come to you today, how would you be pleased with the life you have led this year?

Truly it is a blessed thing to love on earth as we hope to love in Heaven, and to begin that friendship here which is to endure for ever there.

What son would not bring his mother back to life and would not bring her into paradise after her death if he could?

The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."