Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things; give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest.

What thou art, that thou art; that God knoweth thee to be and thou canst be said to be no greater.

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Grace is the mastery of truth, the teacher of discipline, the light of the heart, the comforter of affliction, the banisher of sorrow, the nurse of devotion.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

No confict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself.

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.