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.
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.
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.