God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom.

Patient endurance attends to all things.

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.

Patience obtains everything.

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

The most potent and acceptable prayer is the prayer that leaves the best effects. I don't mean it must immediately fill the soul with desire . . . The best effects are those that are followed up by actions-when the soul not only desires the honor of God, but really strives for it.