Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God.

No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.

Crosses are of no use to us but inasmuch as we yield ourselves up to them and forget ourselves.

How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent and God will speak again.

Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.

The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.