I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exuberant affection of a mother.

When we are truly in this interior simplicity our whole appearance is franker, more natural. This true simplicity. . . makes us conscious of a certain openness, gentleness, innocence, gaiety, and serenity. O, how amiable this simplicity is! Who will give it to me? I leave all for this. It is the pearl of the Gospel.

To be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing can disturb

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

The greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us.

I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.

We may as well tolerate all religions, since God Himself tolerates all.