The eyes of our souls only then begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing.

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.

Read whatever chapter of scripture you will, and be ever so delighted with it - yet it will leave you as poor, as empty and unchanged as it found you unless it has turned you wholly and solely to the Spirit of God, and brought you into full union with and dependence upon him.

God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.

Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.

You are to think of yourself as only existing in this world to do God's will. To think that you are your own is as absurd as to think you are self-created. It is an obvious first principle that you belong completely to God.