My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted. ~ 28

I thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires …

God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.

When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders. ~ 37

Safety is not to be secured, then, by the wisest foresight. I shall embark more composedly in our merchant-ship, praying fervently, indeed, that it may not be …

Praying is another way of singing. You plant in the tree the soul of lemons. You plant in the gardens the spirit of roses.

I used to pray that God would do this or that. Now I pray only that God will make his will known to me.