Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.

O Lord, you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done, as you please. Give what you will, how much you will, and when you will.

It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it.

No man is safe above but he that will gladly be beneath.

Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every burden light.

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.