There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power.

Speak, move, act in peace.

The great point is to renounce your own wisdom by simplicity of walk, and to be ready to give up the favor, esteem, and approbation of every one, whenever the path in which God leads you passes that way.

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

The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.

I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.

How does our will become sanctified? By conforming itself unreservedly to that of God.