Everything in …nature, is descended out that which is eternal, and stands as a. ..visible outbirth of it, so when we know how to separate out the grossness, death, and darkness. ..from it, we find. ..it in its eternal state.
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.
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains and studying night and day how to fly?
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.
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.
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.
Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.
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.