Great Throughts Treasury

"All creatures have existed eternally in the divine essence, as in their exemplar. So far as they conform to the divine idea, all beings were, before their creation, one thing with the essence of God. (God creates into time what was and is in eternity.” Eternally, all creatures are God in God... So far as they are in God, they are the same life, the same essence, the same power, the same One, and nothing less."

"Remember that you will derive strength by reflecting that the saints yearn for you to join their ranks; desire to see you fight bravely, and that you behave like true knights in your encounters with the same adversities which they had to conquer, and that breathtaking joy is theirs and your eternal reward for having endured a few years of temporal pain. Every drop of earthly bitterness will be changed into an ocean of heavenly sweetness."

"I have often repented of having spoken. I have never repented of silence."

"Let each look to himself and see what God wants of him and attend to this, leaving all else alone."

"It is not God's will that we should abound in spiritual delights, but that in all things we should submit to his holy will."

"By ignorance the truth is known."

"Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr."