“Where do we begin? Begin with the heart.”

Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give.

Prayer unites the soul to God.

We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.

As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother.

Lord Jesus, I have heard you say: ‘Sin is necessary but all will be well, and all will be well, and every kind of thing will be well’.

The Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not alway in peace and in love.

But Jesus, who in this Vision informed me of all that is necessary for me, answered and said: It was necessary that there should be sin; but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.

The goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.

Everything has being through the love of God.

Our Lord God shewed that a deed shall be done, and Himself shall do it, and I shall do nothing but sin, and my sin shall not hinder His Goodness working.

Until I am essentially united with God, I can never have full rest or real happiness.

The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.

That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.

God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it.

God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one’s eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

In love with September’s sun the season that begins all witchy things and stirs the soul.

In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn’t have a unique perspective.

The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself – and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.

My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.