Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

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

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

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.

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.

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.

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

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

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

Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

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.