The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives alms, or is most eminent for temperance, chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God.
Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and a happy life.
There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.
Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.
Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.
Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.
This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.
Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
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.
