When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".

Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.

Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.

Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.

You wanted God's ideas about what was best for you to coincide with your ideas, but you also wanted him to be the almighty Creator of heaven and earth so that he could properly fulfill your wish. And yet, if he were to share your ideas, he would cease to be the almighty Father.

The reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it.

Death induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we shall die - but this is sensuality's cowardly lust for life, that contemptible order of things where one lives in order to eat and drink instead of eating and drinking in order to live.