"Father in heaven! What one in society with men, especially there in the human swarm, with so much difficulty learns t…"

"the poet talks thus: ‘Oh, would I were a bird, or would I were like a bird, like a free bird which gratifies its Wand…"

"The surprising happened to him. In proportion as he became more and more earnest in prayer, he had less and less to s…"

"When suffering is neither more nor less, that is when it is merely that definite thing which it is, then, even though…"

"We men, or a man in the situation of the lily, would surely say, ‘It is hard, it is not to be endured , when one is a…"

"And then think of the innumerable multitudes of men now living! We men speak of its being a work of patience to be a …"

"What then does the Gospel do? The Gospel, which is the wisdom of child-training, does not enter into strife with man …"

"What is joy? Or what is it to be joyful? It is to be present to oneself; but to be truly present to oneself is this t…"

"Learn therefore furthermore from the lilies and the birds: cast all thy care upon God, entirely, absolutely, as the l…"

"Consider what applies to thee, if not as a man, at least as a Christian, that even the danger of death is for thee so…"