A revelation is to be received as coming from God, not because of its internal excellence, or because we judge it to be worthy of God; but because God has declared it to be His in as plain and undeniable a manner as He has declared creation and providence to be His. |
All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness. |
Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory. |
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day |
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. |
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. |
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue. |
He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life. |
Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light. |
Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves. |
If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead. |
It's never going to get too much. You need it. You have to buy it. |
Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God. |
Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God. |
Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love. |