Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them.

Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.

Truth suffers, but never dies.

It should be observed that perfect love of God consists not in those delights, tears and sentiments of devotion that we generally seek, but in a strong determination and keen desire to please God in all things, and to promote His glory.

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.