The greatest evil is physical pain.
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
Faith is to believe what we do not see the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with th...
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.
Love is the beauty of the soul.
God is best known in not knowing him.
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicion...
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
What you are must always displease you if you would attain to that which you are not.
Order your soul reduce your wants live in charity associate in Christian community obey the laws trust in Providence.
Seek not to understand that thou mayest believe but believe that thou mayest understand.