If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.

All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as being told how vastly much he is capable of. You are capable of - do you want to know? - you are capable of living in poverty; you are capable of standing almost any kind of maltreatment, abuse, etc. But you do not wish to know about it, isn't that so? You would be furious with him who told you so, and only call that person your friend who bolsters you in saying: 'No, this I cannot bear, this is beyond my strength, etc.

To love another person is to help them love God.

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.

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