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

“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. ”

“One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works.”

“The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.”

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

“If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.”

“Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.”