I do not know any subject that so much depresses me, humbles me, and lays me in the dust, as the thought of my omissions.

I believe that our God is best praised in common things. He who molds a shoe with a right motive is praising God as much as the seraph who pours forth his cele…

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to him.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do…