“Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.”

“Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage. ”

“Some people prefer solitude. They say their peace of mind depends on this.Others say they would be better off in church.If you do well, you do well wherever you are. If you fail, you fail wherever you are. Your surroundings don't matter. God is with you everywhere -- in the market place as well as in seclusion or in the church.If you look for nothing but God, nothing or no one can disturb you.God is not distracted by a multitude of things.Nor can we be.”

“The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.”

“Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.”

“In this breaking-through, I receive that God and I are one. Then I am what I was, and then I neither diminish nor increase, for I am then an immovable cause that moves all things.”

“I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!”