Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us.

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

Now if you will stop here and ask yourself why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it.

Until we are renewed in the spirit of our mind and illumined in every part, our very virtues are but taught practices grafted upon a corrupt bottom

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.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

The more we pay for any truth, the better is our bargain.