“I cannot grasp all that I am.”

“Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.”

“I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.” Augustine/John Calvin”

“Si nemo me queret, scio; si aliqui explicare velim, nescio."If no one asks me, I know. If I am asked to explain,I do not know".”

“Woe to my proud soul, which hoped that if it fell away from you, it would have something better! It turned and turned again upon its back and sides and belly, but all places were hard to it, for you alone are rest.”

“Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by accidents of time, or place, or circumstance, are brought into closer connection with you.”

“How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.”