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All things must be set right in yourself first, before you can rightly assist others towards the attaining to the same state.
No one can see these truths in the manner that I have presented them, without being in some degree inclined to believe them, and in some degree stirred up to act in conformity to them.
Who has not at one time or other felt a sourness, wrath, selfishness, envy and pride, which he could not tell what to do with, or how to bear, rising up in him without his consent, casting a blackness over all his thoughts, and then as suddenly going off again, either by the cheerfulness of the sun or air, or some agreeable accident, and again, at times, as suddenly returning upon him? Sufficient indications are these to every man that there is a dark guest within him… often lulled to sleep by worldly light and amusements.
For the outward world is but a glass, a representation of the inward; and everything, and variety of things in temporal nature, must have its root or hidden cause in something that is more inward.
The spiritual life is as much its own proof as the natural life, and needs no outward or foreign thing to bear witness to it.
I appeal to nothing but the state of your own hearts and consciences, to prove the necessity of your embracing this mystery of divine love.
These are not fictions of a visionary imagination, but sober truths, spoken by the word of God in scripture, and written and engraven in the book of every man’s own nature.
I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances. I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.
The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.
Apprehensions are greater in proportion as things are unknown.
Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
All things obey fixed laws.
There arises in us the dawn of a Knowledge of Truth.
The seed of the oak produces oaks, and is never converted by circumstances into a beech tree.
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
No one is so accursed by fate, no one is so utterly desolate, but some heart, though unknown, responds unto his own.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
