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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God. ”
We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another. ”
He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life. ”
Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares. ”
All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness. ”
No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress. ”
Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life. ”
Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like. ”
Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light. ”
Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory. ”