Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.
All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.
We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.
It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself.
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
It isn't the Lord who withholds himself from us. It is we who withhold ourselves from him because of our failure to keep his commandments.
Numberless marks does man bear in his soul, that he is fallen and estranged from God; but nothing gives a greater proof thereof, than that backwardness, which every one finds within himself, to the duty of praise and thanksgiving.
Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.
