Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.

A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.

Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made of it.

Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently... And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.

Let the enemy rage at the gate; let him knock, pound, scream, howl; let him do his worst. We know for certain that he cannot enter our soul except by the door of our consent.