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

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

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

Man needs to be Saved from his own Wisdom as much as from his own Righteousness, for they produce one and the same corruption. Nothing saves a man from his own righteousness, but that which delivers him from his own wisdom.

Perhaps there cannot be a better way of judging of what manner of spirit we are of, than to see whether the actions of our life are such as we may safely commend them to God in our prayers.

Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.