“Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.”

In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.

Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.

Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.

The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.

I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.

We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.

It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.

Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.

I would rather live my life as if there is a god and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

I don’t know if the secret of life is to find love, but I do think one of the secrets of life is to embody love.

Chase your dreams but make sure you don’t find shortcuts.