The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.
It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.
The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.
We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.
There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult to us than all our efforts.
Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego.