“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.”

“There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.”

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

“Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.”

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

“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.”

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