The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.

God, deliver me from sullen saints.

Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

Let thy words be few when in the midst of many.

One must not think that a person who is suffering is not praying. He is offering up his sufferings to God, and many a time he is praying much more truly than one who goes away by himself and meditates his head off, and, if he has squeezed out a few tears, thinks that is prayer.

If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.