We abide in God insofar as we do not sin.

If history records good things about good people, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good; or if it records the evil of wicked people, the godly listener or reader is encouraged to avoid all that is sinful and bad, and to do what he knows to be good and pleasing to God.

Unfurl the sails, and let God steer us where He will.

I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea.

I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.

No man taketh away sins (which the law, though holy, just and good, could not take away), but He in whom there is no sin.